The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-04
FLY HUNTER IS OBLIVIOUS TO
 RUSS PERIL
Texas Entomologist Wan
 ders Into Soviet Land Looking for Rare Species.

Moscow, Oct. 4-With a detached, scientific look in his eyes and glass Jars full of flies in his suitcase. Pro lessor Muller, zoologist and specialist in heredity, formerly of Columbia and now of the University of Texas. flew into Moscow-one of the first Ameri- cans to make use of the new airplane line connecting Moscow with Berlin. BolsheV1kS and red armies and na- in his young life. He was interested In flies, through the breeding of which he studied the laws of heredity mak- Ing new discoveries which some day might be applied to human life. He was taking vacation trip to Europe ana met in Germany Russian scien- tists, also out on vacation. He learned th2t work similar to his was being go right in.
 Couldn't Be Worried. Just like that! While business men and diplomats wonder whether Rus s1a is safe to deal with, while pass ports and visas and stamps and GUS toms put up 8 wall which keeps any but the most hardy out of Russia, this pleasantly aloof scientist just cheer t tuIly wandered in If any of the GUS pected his suitcase and examined it they would have been still more startled on discovering that his bag ee@SO SOIiS1SI0u 1aFSely or 116S! For naturally he took his precious 1les with him; he was not going to let them languish and die in Berlin, car ry1ng with them into obscurity who heredity. But when he went out of Russia again he divided his flies with the scientific institutes near Moscow, because he considered them quite worthy Of the honor and able to carry on his experiments at least as we'll as he did.
 Found Kindred Souls, Ihey are carrying on the same Moscow, on his way to visit the Gene JIG station at Ann1kova, 'but they have been doing it with even more developed animals. I am amazed at l never heard of this Annikova Station Detore l came here, and I find that it was organized four years ago, during all the war and revolution, and has forty active scientific co1laborators, Who nave introduced many new facts into the science of heredity, It is quite splendtdly equipped.
 Ana this is only one small depart ment r;a of the Institute of Experimental Biology under Professor Kolzoff. also saw the new Institute of BioIogi- cal Chemistry, where more than a hundred experimenters are working under Professor Bach. I visited an Institute of Hydro-Biology, also under ROBOTS general department.
 Rejuvenated Birds.
 II saw canary birds old and dying who very shortly afterward were hop- ping and singing like young birds, through the transplanting of sex organs. In the study of rejuvenation they are getting remarkable results with chickens and other small birds. And Professor 1vanoff has done inn portant work on the artificial fertiliza- tlon Of animals, proving that cows, for instance, can be artif1cially fertiIized to much higher grade.
 Tn fact, I am amazed by what I round here. l expected very much less on account of the wars they have had and the hard economic conditions. But, of course, they are much in need or contact with the outside world and With literature from abroad. This Is a great drawback to them, and it ought to be removed. It is quite necessary for scientists to interchange ideas and even visits occasionally. The thought Tn America that science in Russia is dying is quite untrue"
 Got In Easy.
 Did you have much trouble getting IT? he was asked.
 Well, I did waste a lot of time in Berlin waiting for visa. They didn't seem to understand my business at hrst, but the Russian scientists ar ranged it for me. After I got to Mos COW l found young man working in the Foreign Office who used to be a pupil of mine in Columbia, and after that. It was easy to get infrOductiopc !,