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Dr. Cook, once a milkman and Brooklyn physician, is now 62 and a pauper. Some people believe that he is mentally, unbalanced. (He still says he thinks he reached the North Pole.) Others say that he is a much maligned man. Edwin Swift Balch of Philadelphia, a distinguished scientist and...
Died. Dr. Ira Remsen, 81, president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, discoverer of saccharin, in Carmel, Calif, (see p. 21).
On the trip was Robert Peary, Jr., son of the North Pole discoverer, on whose trips Bartlett learned the ways of the Arctic Wastes.
Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows: Samuel Insull, organizer of electricity: "In Chicago last week I went to a hall in the black belt to address the National Negro Press Association. I waited...
The Discoverer. When Darwin had labored 20 years to support his theory, another man (Alfred Russel Wallace) appeared about to forestall him by announcing the same theory, with him a week old. Far from jealous or bitter, Darwin joined his announcement with Wallace's. They were warm friends. Darwin...