Evening journal., 1898-06-03
uMIrgp 20 INSECTS.
Grating Cannon he Performed UDo2
Higher Animals.

Crnfting Cannot he Performed UDo2
Higher Animals.
Would it be possible for an impioua
end-of-the-century scientist, with a
miscellaneous assortment OF human be-
ings, goats, lionesses, horses, dogs and
other animals at his command, actually
TO create and give kfe to scmblances of
such NEUROLOGICAL anomalies as Pan,
the man with the soper's visage and
torso; Minotaur, the being endowed
with a bulls head and mans body;
the beauteous mermaid; the sphynx,
woman and a IoneSs conjoined; the
centaur; the griffin and the dragon?
The question arises from the fact that
Prof. Crampton, of Columbus universi-
ty, has recently succeeded by the use
of his knife on living, breathing ma
ture, and then the grating process, in
producing an amazing collection of
monstrosities in the insect kingdom.
In other words, he has created two
headed butterflies, tandem butterflies,
moths with two heads and no tails,
some with two abdomens, others with
two breasts and no backs and all i'm
aginable varieties.
The statement has been made that
Mr.. Champion may be able TO extend his
findings to higher animal life, and IL
he succeed and were mischievously dis
posed what would prevent him from
playing pranks with The human, cap
ricorn, leonine and other species? Why
could not he, for instance. go TO Dun
ming, pick out likely pauper and buy
him "on the hoof," az some evll-mind-
ed persons say 1t is possible TO do
and then, by resorting 10 the stock
yards penfolds, procure sizable be-
vine and so weld the two beings as
to evolve the monster that once was
the terror Of Cyprus? Why couldn't
he confer a boon on pedestrians In Pa
cific avenue by kidnapping Blacksmith
Beamish's pestiferous goat and unite
him with the upper portion OF q we'll
formed 'levee" bum, creating thereby
a rollicldng but harmless Pan2
But the savants of the Chicago uni
versity say that Mr.. Champion couldn't
do this, because, they declare, It is inn
possible TO perform tho grating upon
higher forms of animal life, save as in
the case of human beings where IL is
possible to implant skin upon the body
or to insert an alien tooth in a mans
jaw.
There is nothing new In Prof. Cramp-
tons experiments" said Dr. Wheeler
Of the university, recently. "They fol-
low along the lines of experiments
performed by Born and others q year
or SO ago in engrafting earth worms
salamanders and other lower forms OF
life. hardly think that Mr.. Cramp
tons efforts will prove of any great
service TO physicians, as the dispatches
state, or that the whole science of medi
cine will be uprooted and reorganized.'
Prof. Whitman had this TO sayi "Th'
| experiments of Mr.. Crampton wer,
made last summer substantially al
has been reported. Part Of tho worl
was done at Woods hall laboratory ant
part in New York. The larvae of moths
were sliced and joined together and th'
full-grown specimens with two sets o
wings were preserved. don't think 4
is known how deeply tho grating nf
fects the nervous systems OF tho ami
mails. and ! do not know of any par
ticulnrly important scientific result
that will come from the experiments
The only thing that can be said abou
the value of the work is that IL show
in very clear way that individualit!
IS not such a fixed and definite thing a
Is popularity supposed. ."-Chicag'
| Chronicle.