Science: Physiological Circus

Last week round-faced Dr. George Washington Crile formally unveiled in his Cleveland Clinic a stupendous museumful of stuffed animals and a new physiological theory. The museum was completed last March when Dr. Crile went to Miami, hired a Goodyear blimp, wandered cloudlike over the blue Gulf Stream in search of a manatee. When he at last sighted one in an estuary, he blimped back to shore, boarded a speedboat, bagged it (935 lb.). In Cleveland the manatee, like some twelve score other animals Crile has collected from Lake Tanganyika to Hudson Bay in...

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