The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
SCIENCE CRAFTS
MUSCULAR TISSUE
Diseased Organs OfAnimalSAISO
Replaced by Healthy Ones.
NATURAL DEATH is PAINLESS
These Are Some of the Interesting
Statements of Experts Which Are
Announced In Years Report of the
Smithsonian Institution.

Smithsonian Institution.
Removal of living organs, their pres
ervation in "cod storage" and their
final refunctioning in the bodies of 9TH
er animals of the same species are de-
scribed in the report of the Smithso-
nian institution for 1912.
II. Legendre of the Museum of Nat
ural History in Paris is the author who
deals with grating organs, and he de-
scribes many operations which, proving
successful. have established his theory.
Muscular tissue may also be trans
ferred, he declares. Thus sound mus
cles or organs can be used to replace
diseased ones.
This is only one feature of the re-
port, which takes broad survey Of
science. Another paper. that by DR.. e.
A. Schaffer. declares that the prob
lens of life and matter are strikingly
similar" General results tend to show,
he asserts, that living beings are gov
erned by laws identical with those that
govern inanimate matter. Natural
death, not due to disease, should be
quiet and painless, he says.
"HoIes In the Air"
From such problems as these the re-
port shifts to "holes in the air." which
are declared by the writer to affect
the aviator much as holes or vacuities
would elsewhere, though they are not
real holes, of course, but changes in
mir currents.
The author, w. J. Humphreys, pro-
fessor of meteorological physics in the
weather bureau, describes air currents
as like "breakers," "eddies," torrents"
and "billows." All these, he declares,
are less effective as the speed of the
aeroplane is increased, "but this does
not mean that the fastest machine nec-
eSsarily is the safest
Safeguarding of ships against ice
bergs is discussed by Professor How
ard T. Barnes of McGill university,
Montreal, who describes a micro-ther-
mOmeter, which automatically records
one-thousandth of a degrees change in
temperature, Thus the approach of
icebergs can be gagged
The mysteries of oriental music, the
sounds of which are usually torture to
Americans or Europeans, or at least
seem funny" are explained by Willy
Pastor. He declares that the oriental
Is chiefly concerned with the quality of
each tone and with very small inter-
walls, while the occidental wants sue
cession of tones and the use of large
intervals.
Captain Roald Amundsen. the Nor
wegian explorer. describes the discov-
cry of the south pole and the exploit
of the Fram's crew in reaching the
''farthest south"
Another scientist describes penguins,
antarctic birds, as being like funny
old men.
Explosive Soap Bubbles.
Still another tells of the scientific
value of soap bubbles and how bub-
BILE within bubble can be made. This
author, G. V. Boys, tells of various
laws of physics which can be demon
strated and how explosive soap bub-
bles can be made.
There is eulogy by Charles Nord-
man of the late Henri Poincare noted
French physicist and relative of the
present French president. The state
ment is made that the French scientist
was great in literature as well as in
his chosen speciality. He is described
as "a great inventor a great phioso-
pher and great writer"
An article by Sir William Ramsay
relates to the measurement of infinltes-
imal quantities of substance, in which
he details some of the recent efforts of
scientists "to see the invisible, to touch
the intangible and to weigh the i'm
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