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...Medical experts should be permitted by law to examine the bodies of all persons who die of peculiar or unusual diseases." This plea was made by Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, who is quoted as saying: "The United States should have a law similar to the one in Austria which gives this power to experts of that country who are studying how to combat disease. Our hands will remain tied until we are allowed the same liberty." It was through the performing of innumerable autopsies that Pasteur came to discover his treatment for rabies...
Captain See is no slouch of a mathematical astronomer in his own right. A graduate of American universities and a Ph.D. of Berlin, a member of all the great astronomical societies of the world, a research worker of established reputation in the very fields in which Einstein has gained his fame, he is " starred " in Cattell's American Men of Science, which means that he ranks among the 1,000 most distinguished scientists and the 50 leading astronomers in America whose work is supposed to be most important, by vote of their own colleagues. And so is Dr. Campbell...
...Kentucky, said: "You need not punish these teachers of evolution. Men who believe they have the blood of brutes in their veins will never be martyrs for any cause." In a dispassionate and authoritative article in the New Republic, Vernon Kellogg, biologist, and Permanent Secretary of the National Research Council, summarized the present status of organic evolution. Quotations: "I do not know of a single living biologist of high repute-and I do not determine repute on a required basis of a belief in evolution!-who does not believe in evolution as a proved part of scientific knowledge. "The evidence...
Contents of a crocodile's stomach (research conducted by the Royal Zoological Society of London) : Eleven brass arm rings, three coiled wire armlets, one glass bead necklace, 14 arm and leg bones (not all human), three spinal columns, one length bark cord (used by colored porters to carry bundles), 18 stones of assorted sizes, several porcupine quills. (The crocodile lived in Tanganyika Territory, British East Africa...
...eternal fire of the ancient fireworshippers of the Caspian Sea was nothing but the burning gases of petroleum, according to Carl 0. Johns, research chemist of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, who revealed many milestones in the development of petroleum since prehistoric times. " Fundamental research in the chemical composition of crude oils is the crying need of the industry today," said...