Evening star., 1922-01-15
WONDERFUL ADVENTURES AWAIT YOUNG
SCIENTIST IN THE JUNGLES OF AFRICA

on which / may have to exercise my
hypnotic eye in order to capture
| specimens without hurting them?"
Il *.* *.
Guy has distinct sense of humor.
which is noticeable in almost
| everything he says about himself.
1t preserves him. at any rate, from
| that afniction, not confined to youth
ful genius. Of swelled head.
Il am hoping" he said, "to get to-
gether one of the finest collections
that has ever been brought from the
Cameroons-brought from the Came
roons-for the requirements of the
museum are broad-mammalia, birds
and insect life. The particular man,
mails / am after are bats, rats, squir-
rels. monkeys, weasels and lemurs.
OF course. a list of what we want
kindly note the pronoun we" repre-
senting the museum and Guy-"would
fill a volume"
The boy picked up small carved
figure of a monkey from the writer's
mantelpiece. 1t excited his interest.
where did you get this from. What
is it made Off" He spat out the
questions with machine gun rapidity.
and. without waiting for an answer,
scratched the material "Soapstone."
he murmured, putting il down. He
had as suddenly lost interest in IL.
What fun ] shall. have" he ex-
claimed. "on hunts for moths, sugar
ing the trees with a mixture of rum
and sugar, and hanging rags soaked
with essences TO attract moths and
butterflies. In the daytime i shall
have to take the intoxicated insects
from the trees.
II shall catch rats and mice by
sinking jam jars in their runs. and a
special trap for monkeys will be a
bottle with a fairly narrow neck.
filled with nuts. The unsuspecting
monk stuffs his hand into the bottle.
grasps the nuts and hasn't the sense
to let go and is captured.
81 am anxious to test scheme for
using the butterfly net as much as
possible to capture specimens. 1t
isn't the accepted method" he ex-
planned. you mustn't forget that
one boy alone in England discovered
| thirtytwo British types of fly, pre-
| viously unknown to science, so what
! may l not expect to do?''
There is little doubt that this, boz.
true father TO the man." has the
imaginative mind that can take hold,
speculative leaps, and the logical,
constructive qualities that can make
test of them in the light of cold fact.
One side of his character was ex-
posed to me by visit to his room
where he does his work.
noticed a homemade dissecting
microscope. knowing that good new
one costs about $50.
X X X
"How did you make this l asked,
IL His parents cannot afford such
| expensive things for dissecting in.
sects. though posterity may benefit.
J For lens. / bought a linen tester
price, half a dollar" he said. 'Ther
| from a busted hand lamp l took th'
| box to make the framework, and
! used the lid of an old tin as re-
| f1ecting mirror. 1 fixed the liner
tester on to an old battery terminal
for the base. You see it works well
i enough, though it isn't as powerful
and effective, of course, as a good
bought one"
i This boy of adventurous spirit. with
| the brain of a scientist, who is cou-
| rageously taking UP the scientific work
of his father, will not have dull time,
He will step right into a jungle that
has by its terrors reduced some men
to a babbling childhood again. He
will have to fight his way through
it, actually on occasions cut a path
/ through the underground that grows
! thick in a night. What matter?
! 1t is an epic journey Of youth in
search of beautiful birds and strange
! insects. He is not looking for fame
which seldom comes to those who
! do-for he is obsessed by the un-
known. And that is to be the true
| servant of science, which immediate
ly loses interest in what it knows for
what it doesn't know.
! We shall hear more of this boy,
who is sure to be the envy of every
American youngster who reads about
him.