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Last week the discoverer of that petrified forest, Yale's merry old paleobotanist, George Reber Wieland, was engaged in a public quarrel with Secretary of the Interior Ickes, whose duty it is to tend to national monuments. Professor Wieland wants Secretary Ickes to spend $95,000 cleaning up the petrified forest and making it easy for paleobotanists to get to. He thinks he has a right to get that done because, besides discovering the forest, he took title to it as a homesteader and then gave it back to the Government for nothing...
Having his head full of many other things, including a sewage disposal plant on the Potomac, Secretary Ickes had his publicity-wise Personal Assistant Harry Slattery write this refusal to Paleobotanist Wieland: ". . . The subject of fossil cycads does not have a broad appeal. . . . The story can be effectively told by a display which, for the present at least, can be housed in the administration building at Wind Cave National Monument, 22 miles distant...
...great good friend of the late Andrew Carnegie whom he resembles,* Professor Wieland last week retorted warmly in the columns of Science that Fossil Cycad National Monument "has no more to do with speleology [cave lore] than the snowcap of Kilimanjaro. It must have been an oversight on the part of nature to put so much scientific clarity and loveliness only 22 miles from a cavern in a gulch and now surrounded by a sort of caravansary. That is not what the student of evolution exactly wishes to see first. . . . Will the 'public' be as dumb tomorrow...
Reports that Hitler was angered by the inclusion of Jews in the Festival company, invited by Frau Wagner, were dispelled by the presence of her son Wieland in Hitler's box, announcement that he would remain to hear Richard Strauss conduct Parsifal and Elmendorff's directing of the Ring cycle. Frau Wagner, to whom the Chancellor has often been rumored engaged, was busy backstage during the performance, did not join his party...
...discover how that breathing takes place. He found that respiration is possible only in the presence of the iron carried by a specific enzyme, the chemistry of which he worked out. Said Dr. Warburg last week: "It was only recently that I found out how the difference had arisen. Wieland as a chemist worked on dead cell material. When you destroy living cells you get a juice in which combustible materials such as sugar are much more highly concentrated than in the living cell, and by virtue of that higher concentration respiration in that liquid can take place...