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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1931.

CHINESE BRAINS ARE DIFFERENT

CEREBRAL SECRETS

PROFESSOR SHELLSHEAR LECTURES TO HONG KONG ROTARIANS.

SCOPE

OF ANATOMY

Rotarians of Hong Kong, at the weekly tiffin yesterday, listen- ed to an enlightening talk by Professor J. L. Shellshear, D.S.O., M.B., Ch.M., the subject being "The Scope of Anatomy."

THE CHINA MAIL.

STRANGLED BABY.

CONFUSION ALLEGED AT THE MORTUARY,

TWO BODIES FOUND.

Yesterday afternoon's resumed hearing of the circumstances at. tending the removal to the Mor- toary of the body of a Chinese female baby which was found in the Public Gardens was taken up; with the straightening-out of a tangle as to the identity of two dend Chinese Infants (both females) which were in the Mer tuary the same day, November 14.

A Sanitary Department coolie said that he removed a body to the Mortuary from the Central Police He placed the body on a Station. jslab with a card and a slip of paper

beside it.

In all his experience. he claimed, he had never seen card tied to the body.

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Another coolie anid that he did not see a cord around the neck of the body which was picked up in the Public Gardens.

A Reprimand. Mr. Lindsell: The cord wor

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The President, Sir W. W. Hornell, in introducing the speaker, said that Professor Shellshear was Professor of Anatomy at the University of Hong Kong. He was educated in New South Wales, and after qualifying at Sydney University, found it necessary to go at once into general practice. He was a general practitioner until the War. In the meantime he was a keen Volunteer, and he there around the neck. You did not Negopatam (Hakone Maru): from went out as a commander of a battery. Later he commanded a Brigade.

After the War Professor Shellshear studied anatomy at St. Bartholomew's and University College, and later was appointed to the local University.

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Miscellaneous,

Inspector Shaftain, who was on charge room duty on the day in question, said that he saw the body) which was picked up in the gar-] dens, but did not notice anything] around the neck, He agreed that hia examination superficial.

The attendant at the Mortuary Isaid that the two bodies of infants were placed on separate slabs on admission. The following morning arranged alongside these two, and Study of the Brain.

he was unable to distinguish the

It was pos But the most interesting of all one from the other. studies in connection with manisible that the infants' bodies bad was the study of that organ of been shifted to wrong positions the body which controlled all the with consequent confusion as to others. "We must learn to un-numbers which had been allotted to derstand each other in a scien- them on admission.

Professor Sheilshear, opening to man, reached senility much he found that other bodies had been his talk, said that if twenty more quickly. minutes were considered a short time in which to discuss the Civil Code of China (the subject of Dr. Foo Ping-sheung's talk last week), it was an even shorter time in which to discuss the Scope of Anatomy.

Anatomy entered into the dis-life manner," said the speaker, The inquiry was again adjourn-

the helicopter..

"and before we can do that we must go through a lot of scienti- fie and difficult work."

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On this aspect of anatomy did anatomist. It had been the Chinese, for instance, think ly an actually found that he had work-differently from the Occidental? ed out the whole of the principles If so, was it merely due to tradi- of neronautica, including that of tion? "We have been brought up His anatomical in a different tradition, and to use drawings were still unequalled to different symbols. It is up to us the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, ed in three bomb outrages this to find out any difference in two brothers, Luiz and Daniel da morning on three Argentine rail, vision," the professor added. It Silva, were stated to have assault-ay had been maintained that the ed Mrs. Maria Glyceria D'Azevedo Mongolian retained more than

on December 9 in Jordan Road, and taneously at the termint of the tatis to-day approved the Ad- the European the evidence of in-behaved in a disorderly manner. Western and the Great Southern ministration's proposals to restrict fantile characteristics, and in the Another brother, F. H. da Silva, Railways, two being killed and four all immigration for two years to study of Chinese one or twu also concerned in the affair, was injured.

10 per cent. of the existing quotas.. things had been discovered that said to have left the Colony. A A third bomb wrecked -Reuter's American Service.

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"It is risky making love to an other man's wife."

"It is worse making love to his widow."-Buen Humor, Madrid.

were still tentative and un- certain, but which invited

more investigation.

counter-summons for assault was

preferred against the complainant by Mr. Daniel da Silva.

Washington, Yesterday. The US. Immigration Sub-Com- Two bombs exploded simul-mittee in the House of Represen-

suburban passenger train on the Central Argentine Railway, and the number of deaths is not yet known.

The outrages are attributed to terrorists.-Reuter's American Ser-

vice:

Man, The Primitive.

Mr. Horace Lo, appearing for the The speaker went on to point complainant, said that she was out that man alone had retained subjected to very brutal treatment all his organs in a primitive on the night of the alleged assault, state. What characterised him and on account of the incident was was his primitiveness. It could confined to bed for a considerable! be seen everywhere one looked.time. Man had retained everything After hearig further evidence His U.S. that could have been modified. Worship dismissed the summons, His face was more infantile than and added that he thought the com-{ that of the gorilla, whose facial plainant's story was greatly exag- features were highly specialised,

gerated. The counter-summons: although the baby of a gorilla was also dismissed.

was the same as a human being.

In order to develop the cranium, however, man had perforce to de

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Washington, Yesterday. That the United States will give |their_co-operation to the eforta of

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the United Sates would be willing

day. Much later, a German pro-velop longer. And in order to de- SHANGHAI-MANILA the Bank of International Settle- fessor, precluded by unfavourable velop the cranium and the brain, circumstances from following great care was necessary. Hence MR. BROPHY'S FLIGHT IN A practice, had, through his studies it was that maternal affection of the eye and ear, arrived at the constituted a vital factor in whole theory of optics and anatomy. acoustics accepted to-day.

The Study of Man.

However, the greatest of all

The Chinese Brain.

As regards the brain of

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DEATH OF KING'S FORMER EQUERRY.

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whose equarry he was for 88 years. -British Wireless Service.

FATAL COLLISION. EAGLE CAUSES PLANE TO

CRASH.

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Mr. G. W. Brophy, manager of pedite the transfers of gold for tice at Risalpur, for the forthcom-

the aviation department of Messrs. purposes of economy. A detalled ing serial pageant at Delhi, a Chinese, research tended to show E. Gale and Co., is contemplat-report is awaited from the Consu-Westland Wapiti Air Force aero- studies in anatomy was the study that in that area where visual ing a solo flight from Shangbai to late at Basel before any definite plane collided at a height of eight

impulse was impressed the Chin- Manila.

plan fB formulated. Reuter's hundred feet with an eagle, which

of man himself. Man had his

old dogmas which he clung to, and thereby explained the pheno- mena of Nature. He was very often entirely wrong.

ese brain differed from that of The flight was to have taken place American Service. the European. Consequently, in on January 17 but was unavoidably visual things, they saw different- delayed, and now the aviator plans; ly from the European. It might to hop off from Shanghai on Thurs-

In connection with the study be one hundred years before day- The course will be via of man, the question of immor-science could get behind the ex- Foochow and. Canton to Manila. tality had long been discussed, planation. In order to understand Of this journey the last stage is a and the secret sought. There how different brains developed it matter of 650 miles over the Pacific was first a unicellular organism, would be necessary to examine Ocean, later split into two. What was into every possible part of their Mr. Brophy will fly "The Phoe the age of this organism, and was history. That history was up to nix," a Waco machine equipped there something in the two pieces the present so scanty, that what with a 125 horsepower Warner into which it divided that was little part had been happened seven-cylinder radial engine, immortal? These unicellular upon, was thought something organisms went through the miraculous.

AIR ROUTE.

SERVICE TO INDIA TO BE EXTENDED 7

Rugby, Yesterday.

The Under-Secretary for Air, Mr.

Montague stated in the House

of Commons, to-day that the pro-:

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had a wing span of eight feat.

One wing of the Wapiti broke, and the machine crashed, the oc cupants Flight Sergeant Wren and Corporal J. W. Jeffrey, being killed. The latter Jumped from the machine as it was falling, but his parachute failed to work- Reuter.

posal of the Imperial Airways for COTTON STOPPAGE.

the extension of the serylén be- "tween, Britain and India"`to` Aus- |tralia had, aftef 'examination been

periods of youth, maturity, and Exhibiting a model of the of evolution had been discovered forwarded to the Governments in finally senility: But if two old Pithecanthropus skull, the speak-that science would be in a posiAustralia, India, and the Straits unicellular units were put toer explained that it differed from tion to understand the brains of Settlements for consideration. gether they crashed, and as a re- that of a gorilla in that signs of the different races. sult the whole aspect of their the development of a brain were

British Wireless Service. "The scope of anatomy," the life changed. In effect, they already evident. But for com-speaker concluded, "is the scope started life afresh. This ques plete study, every bone associated of man himself," which is almost 'tion of rejuvenescence was the with the creature must be ex-the scope of eternity." (Ap-

one aspect of anatomy which was amined. the most interesting.

Immortality.

plause)

The "Peking Man" New Service Committee,

A further great work for ann-Before the talk by Professor There were thus in the body tomy had been accomplished by Shellshear, the President an- certain cells which were the mat Davidson Black, who from the nounced that a Service Committee

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A mesting of the emergency committee of the Fedoration of Master Cotton Spinners, in Mán- chester, has unanimously decided to recommend its members to limit production, in view of the weavers' stoppage--Reuter.

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Mail has been received at the

erial from which man became im- discovery of one single tooth in had been appointed, consisting of ment, 1,326 banki: failed in the mortal. Had that bean so for all China had, with remarkable fore Messrs. P. B. Cassidy, A. United States in 1930, compared tline? The problem was a fas-sight, reconstructed the skull of Mackintosh, and Harry Hon with 642 In 1829 Renter's Ameri-American Consulate General for cinating one. "Man has sought the "Peking Man," something a Sling, and any suggestions as to can Service, for the elixir of life from the little more advanced than the luncheons, arrangements, and beginning," said "the speaker, Pithecaithroma. His courage had speakers would be welcomed by NEW AIRWAYS DIRECTOR. "and the anatomist still seeks it been vindicated entirely by the theme has

the following persons

A. R. Bartlett, C. L Boouder, Mrs. ME. Bront, S. Domingo, H J. Eddo, H. O. Evand Mrs. T Rugby Yesterday, Gorland, E P. M. von Gohren, Dr.

Man for nine months lived later finding of a complete skull It had been hoped to have parasytical existence. Thereol- which was almost identical. Dame Clara Butt) and ""-Mr. lowed twenty years under the All the evidence, therefore, Kennerley Rumford address the Secretary to the Air Matalzy, bus S. E. Johnson, L. L. Lingle, A H Sir Walter Nicholson, hitherto 8.3. Grubba, T. F. Haskell, Mra. guidance of his arents, followed went to show that there was Rotarians, but they had been become Government Director of Latin, A. M. Martin, L. de M. by his full

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