Word: pavloffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wells has elucidated for the readers of the New York Times-his course of conduct in an agreeable but highly improbable dilemma. If he were standing on a dock with only a single life preserver, and on the one side Pavloff, the famous Russian vivisectionist, were struggling in the water and on the other, splashing and blowing, were George Bernard Shaw, Mr. Wells would pause not, but play to first. It is not that he hates Animal Rescue League more, but he loves Shaw loss. "To the future," he says, "Shaw will have contributed nothing...
...excels in back somersaults from the high springboard. It is to be hoped that the occasion never arrives with Wells in the water and Shaw on the dock: Mr. Wells would doubtless receive a weighted life preserver, while Shaw was using the chest carry to bring Mr. Pavloff ashore...
Another brick in the pile of evidence that is gradually being built up by Kammerer, Guyer and others in favor of the theory of " inheritance of acquired characteristics" (TIME, May 12) has been laid by Professor Ivan P. Pavloff, great Russian physiologist, who visited America last Summer (TIME, July 23). In an address given at the Battle Creek Sanitarium and published in Science last week, he described his latest researches on "conditioned reflexes " in animals...
...Pavloff's newest experiments, not yet completed, are on white mice. The rodents were trained to run to their feeding place at the sound of an electric bell. It took 300 repetitions of the feeding-ringing combination to make the mice run at the sound of the bell. The same thing was tried on the offspring of the original mice, and they learned the connection after only 100 repetitions. The third generation absorbed the theory after 30 lessons, the fourth required 10 repetitions and the fifth but five. The sixth generation will be tested after Dr. Pavloff...
...Ivan Petrovitch Pavloff (1848-), Russian physiologist, student of the 'digestive system (TIME, July...