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Tonight's meeting will be devoted to the annual public address of the Association, delivered by Dr. C. Ray Carpenter, whose topic will be "Behavior and Social Relations of the Rhesus Monkey...
Scientists who have been experimenting with poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) virus have been considerably hampered because the only animal they could infect was the expensive rhesus monkey. Last year Dr. Charles Armstrong of the U. S. Public Health Service finally succeeded in giving polio to ordinary cotton rats. That hurdle passed, he was able to pass the infection from cotton rats to mice...
...Tremain Hertig of Harvard. The ova show that the early stages of embryonic development are not, as used to be thought, significantly different in man and other animals. The Hertig ova convinced the Institution's embryologists that these early processes are practically the same in man and the rhesus monkey...
Fourteen miles east of Puerto Rico's San Juan harbor is the wooded, 36-acre island of Santiago. There 500 macaques, or rhesus monkeys, landed last week, having voyaged 14,000 miles from India in 51 days. Columbia University intends to establish on Santiago a "free-ranging primate colony." Purpose: research on primate behavior, glands, reproduction and tropical diseases. As from Alcatraz, the only mode of escape from Santiago is by swimming...
Parents of the nation pestered Manhattan's nervous little Dr. Maurice Brodie for his much-publicized vaccine of which he has issued some 6,000 doses. But because he gets only ten doses out of each $15 rhesus monkey imported from India, he has had to deny vaccine requisitions right & left. Dr. Brodie does not claim that his vaccine is the definitive preventive of infantile paralysis and other physicians will not concede its validity until after some 50,000 children have been inoculated and their resistance to the disease adequately tested. On the other hand, the vaccine does...