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...Johannesburg, South Africa, Professor Raymond Dart of the University of the Witwatersrand made a startling report: From the jungle where he had been reared by baboons, white policemen rescued a 12-year-old Negro. The boy could at first make only baboonlike noises. When he learned Afrikaans, he told goggle-eyed Professor Dart': "My food consisted mainly of crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey. . . . While with the baboons I walked on all fours and slept in the bush entirely naked...
...used a special fast camera of a type previously used by Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, ingenious lightning observer of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Some years ago Dr. Schonland found that in a typical lightning flash a "leader stroke" starts from a negatively charged cloud toward the positively charged earth. The leader comes down by steps, dying out after each step, diving about 200 ft. farther with the next. Often 30 or 40 steps may be necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader...
...Ecological problems and Research in Africa" will be the subject of a lecture by John Phillips, professor at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, this afternoon. An authority on the subject, Phillips will speak at 4:45 o'clock in the Biological Laboratory. There will be no admission charge...
Deepest gold mine in the world is the Robinson Deep in South Africa's Witwatersrand, whence comes more than half of present world gold production. The Robinson Deep has sunk an inclined 3-mile shaft to a vertical depth of 8,380 ft. At that depth miners sweat, stagger and topple in a temperature of 104°, a humidity of nearly 100. Working efficiency is less than 30%. With gold prices soaring and money to spend, the company asked Willis Haviland Carrier, Newark engineer, to plan the world's biggest air-conditioning plant. Last week, with plans drawn...
...auspices of the Division of Philosophy next Wednesday evening, January 28 at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D. Professor Hoernle was formerly an assistant professor in the University serving in the department of Philosophy from 1914 to 1920, and is now a Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Transvaal, South Africa. The lecture is open to the public...