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...National Resources Committee was established by an Administration order in July 1934. It was allotted $800,000 from the Emergency Relief Act appropriations of 1935. Professor Ogburn's subcommittee was told off to appraise current technological trends and their probable impact on society. This group included President Frank Rattray Lillie of the National Academy of Sciences, President John Campbell Merriam of the Carnegie Institution, President Edward Charles Elliott of Purdue University, a handful of economists, educators and one mathematician. The subcommittee admitted that "invention is a great disturber," but also agreed with the defenders of Science that it creates...
Died. Andrew Rattray, 51, professional big game hunter and zebra farmer, son-in-law of Viscount Furness; after an operation; in Nairobi, British East Africa...
...Frank Rattray Lillie, embryologist (University of Chicago), director of Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole. Mass.) Sc.D...
...Nairobi grey-haired convivial Hunter Rattray is best known for his work in domesticating zebras. The Tanganyika government gave him an experimental farm, where he has succeeded in breaking the larger and more modestly patterned Grevy's zebra to harness. The work is of great interest to African settlers for, though zebras lack the stamina of horses, asses, or mules, they are immune to the deadly tsetse...
...Whom it May Concern: Mr. A. Rattray has ceased to be the hunter to my safari and from this date has no authority to order anything to my account. (Signed) FURNESS...