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...Hearst's San Francisco Examiner appears nn editorial concerning the Moscow scenes of "The March of Time" cinema feature...
...cold, calm February night in 1865, the members of a little science society gathered in the town of Brünn, Austria, to hear a paper on inheritance in plants by an Augustinian monk from the nearby monastery. Gregor Johann Mendel wore a long, black coat and his trousers were tucked into his high boots. He was a plump, genial man with bright, blue eyes...
Such were the findings which Monk Mendel communicated to the Brünn Society for the Study of Natural Science. None of his hearers seemed much interested and none asked questions. For 35 years the paper lay buried in the society's transactions. There is no evidence that Charles Darwin ever heard of Gregor Johann Mendel...
Last year Dr. Samuel Weiller Fernberger, University of Pennsylvania psychology professor, visited the monks of Mendel's monastery. War had shifted the land from Austria to Czechoslovakia, and the town's name had been changed from Brünn to Brno. Of the thousands of peas with which he had worked. Mendel had preserved and mounted only six, and half of these the monastery had lost or given away. Tactfully the professor told the pious men how, at his university, fruitful researches based on Mendel's laws were going vigorously forward. The monks decided...
Died. Leopold Lojka 40, innkeeper, famed as the chauffeur who drove the automobile which carried Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo to his assassination; at Brünn, Czechoslovakia...