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...Tutors are chosen for their ability to transmit learning, to stimulate students to thirst for knowledge...
These observations led to two of Dr. Morgan's unimpeachable genetic discoveries: 1) Lying in the rodlike chromosomes of the germ cells, like links of sausage, are ultramicroscopic units (genes) which transmit individual characteristics (say, brown eyes) from parent to child. 2) When the chromosomes of the two parents mingle in the egg (which ultimately becomes their child), the genes do not mix helter-skelter but "cross over" in groups. That is why, for example, in Drosophila, black body color tends to be inherited with purple eyes, vestigial wings, and a speck at the base of the wings...
Chief stumbling-block so far has been Medicine's failure to transmit encephalitis among experimental monkeys, rabbits and guinea-pigs. Last week Superintendent William George Patton of the St. Louis County Hospital cautiously suggested that man alone may be susceptible to epidemic encephalitis. In Baton Rouge, La., Herbert Brown, tuberculous ex-soldier, promptly offered himself as a human subject. Said he: "I cannot hope to be an old man. I cannot work and would like to do something useful for the world before...
...normal hearing, airborne sound waves enter the outer ear, set up vibrations in the ossicles ("hammer, anvil & stirrup") of the middle ear. These transmit their vibrations to the liquid medium of the inner ear wherein lie the auditory nerves which carry them to the brain...
Sound waves are more easily conveyed through some solids, among them human bone, than through air. The devices announced last week simply short-circuit the outer and middle ear, transmit sound vibrations directly to the auditory nerves via head bones. Sound waves are picked up by a transmitter, passed through a pocket amplifier to a tiny oscillator, which a head band holds snugly against the mastoid bone behind the ear. (Sonotone's improvement consisted in eliminating an oscillator "button" which protruded uncomfortably against the head...