In Chicago, Capt. Barnett W. Harris of the Zoological Society and Field Museum, exhibited as part of his equipment for a collecting trip in Borneo and Java, some rifle cartridges, invented by himself, to shoot animals unconscious instead of dead. The bullets contained a chemical which, upon entering an animal's blood stream, would anesthetize. It would presumably be easier to avoid than to hit the animal's vital spots. Collector Harris proposed to put gorillas and orang-outangs to sleep at long range, bring them home alive.
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