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Backwaters of the Savage South Stazi By Evelyn Cheesman, F.E.S...Z.S. Jarrolds. 10s.

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CREEPING THINGS IN THE SOUTH SEAS

21, 1933

NEW REMEDIES FOR‚

DISEASE

Secrets of Native Drugs

NEED FOR MEDICAL INVESTIGATION

ing golf. Death, appeared to have been caused by a blow from ball driven by his nephew. His col

There lapse was seen, from a distance, by

are hundreds, probably Inspector Arnold, who had chosen thousands, of native drugs in all which would that district for a quiet holiday parts of the world CREEPING THINGS IN THE The policeman's suspicions are well repay medical study and in aroused by the sight of three golf some cases provide maw reinedies for balls on the green. He pursues his disease, usual policy, Boon to come-upon severni clues.

SOUTH SEAS

Miss Evelyn Cheesman is the dis!

The mystery is enhanced by an tinguished entomologist whom one

well-known local remembers is Curator of the Insects accident to at the Zoo and on terms of intimate archeologist, and by the discovery friendship with fantastic or fear that the recipe of Burnside's famous some creatures, To. love nad be sauce, know only to the maker him- loved by a Spider or Scorpion-self, is missing The tale is both what a strangely Franciscan beati brisk and compact, although the end will be found slightly disappointing to some readers.

tude.

This was the view expressed by an authority at the Medical Re- search. Institute at Mount Vernon. Hampstead, where a number of are plants from British Guiana. are now being examined.

"In Malaya alone," he said, several hundreds of native drugs, prepared from plant, have been list- ed, all apparently with pronounced physiological actions-yat few of them have been scientifically ex amined."

Many of these native remedies, it was pointed out, belong to the has given Western medicine, other drugs, quinine, amongst morphine and strychnine.

As an entomologist errant in the

In the last of these books, & house South Seas she has done excellent in Chelsea, reputed to be haunted, work.

Her collection of insects has been rented to a number of from the New Hebrides consists of people for a house party. One of over 18,000 specimens including at the guests relates that. as a child, least 1,100 different species, two- he was so frightened by an appari powerful "alkaloid" group, which thirds of which are still undescription, that he would now shoot, on ed. As the number of insecte al sight, auything of a ghostly nature, ready described and placed in their During the night a shot is heard, order of creation is now approach and a body, with a bullet-wound in ing half a million, a long time may the head, is frund lying in the elapse before her collection is com- passage wrapped in a white sheet pletély worked. For different", Mr. Fielding knows how to tell an species have to be sent to different exciting story, and his ending is specialists-thes some small water well worthy of the thrilling at insects Miss Cheesman collected in mosphere of the book. Tahiti in 1925 were worked out by a Japanese authority in 1930. In- deed this task may take much longer, as is seen from the fact that some insects cullected by Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle bave only been named re cently.

,

LIFE OF A FAMOUS INVENTOR

"Particular groups of plante," it was explained, have the power of building up these drugs, but each species may give the process some slightly different chemical twist cal properties of the drug it pro- which may entirely alter the medi̟-

duces.

"In modern medicine the uses of drugs are so varied there must be a very considerable proportion of these natural products which would be of practical value-in some cases inore effective than anything · now available.

1

Interesting stories about a famous She mentions some of the curious inventor's lighter moments are told

"What is wanted is organised re- creatures the collected-g fire in the "Life of Sir Charles Par- search with regular collectors on the flies with false eyes that light up sons," by Rollo Appleyard, publish-spot who could guarantee to main at night, which, when crawling ed by Constable.

tain supplies. There are plenty of along verandah railing, resemble

chemists at English Universities tiny motor lorries with their big Sir Charles was the inventor of be mistaken for a very brilliant each of his homes in Northumber ever they went home, and when the lanterns, and. when in flight, can the modern turbine. He furnished he would by only too glad to have the opportunity to examine what- meteor. Then there is the signall-land with workshops for experi necessary extracts had been made ing glow-worm" which gives reguments.

there would be no more difficulty lar flasher, three-quarters of a

in having their physiological pro- These homes were centres of ex- second bright and the remaining traordinary activity. Elementary pertics tested." quarter dark, for all the world like model turbines were there made certain lighthouses. It is possible with cotton reels as drums and to believe that such wondrous things with cardliaard strips as blades, originate, not in a conscious process

Halt Devil, Half Child.

The Arrow Poison.

"The value of having a collector it was added," is, on the spot," shown in our present investigation -the South American arrow on poison, curare, which there is renson to hope may prove of medi- cal value in treating one type of servous disease.

As the result of experiments conducted by a young doctor at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Mr.- Wood, the curator of forests in British Guiana, was induced to collect sight strychnos" species of giant erreper from the 'rivers up country."

of creative purpose, but out of the held in position with ealing wax. fortuitous concatenation of atoras. With his little daughter Rachel at his side Parsons produced from the home workshop toys never be fore imagined or permitted in a But this illustrated travel-book, nursery.mong these was the Spi. which is as fascinating and well-der, a small sagine with spirit fuel written as its predecessor, will ap-carried on three wheels, two small peal to those who know nothing of wheels and one large. The Spider Entomology. It is a record of travelled at high speed round the perilous adventures in places where law Rushing and shouting after the white traveller is never very it frequently was. Parsons, chased

by three dogs and often unwittingly į offends the other-worldly suscepti bilities of a very primitive" peo- ple. The New Hebrides belong to

"There WAS also the the ravage South Seas, not to the South Seas of a thousand romances load of two children. The boilers pram for conveying the precious

In appearance and mentality of the smaller, engines were usually the New Hebrideans are, the very transformedting that had con antithesis of the graceful, friendly, tained household poliehes. A small eleanly Polynesians" (of, say, the flying machine with a spirit boiler One of these has proved to con- Society Islands). They seem the natural product of their dark. Was constructed and photographed ciple in the native arrow poison,

welconce

Home-Mado Boilers.

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stoun

The bark from these specimens Mount Vernon, ground up in a has been removed by workers at

coffee" mill," and the alkaloids which they contain extracted.

tain curarine," the active prin

sinister bush, and are most pitiful-

and experiments have already heen. ly dominated by terror of the super- The pangs of the household begun fe test its medical usefulness. natual. Half devil and half child, in the midst of all these inventions! This is one of the most powerful they will never be brought into a were the only quantities that the in- drugs known Hollywood romance. The author ventor failed to compute. He did gives us a close and sympathetic discover. however, that a stenm study of these strange survivals of perambulator with a biscuit tin as the Stone Age, and her enchanting boiler enused maximum domestic book will be highly valued as any agitation." recent work on the long life-drama of the human race.

E.B.O.

CRIME CLUB NOVELS

ASTRONOMY, BOOTLEGGING, GOLF AND GHOSTS.

By

The Fate of Jane McKenzie.

Nancy Barr Mavity. Collins. Ts. ed. Det.

Parsons demonstrated his en- gives in the Turbinia, a specially constructed craft capable of a speed of 35 Inots. The Turbinia made unexpected appearances..

Dramatic Appearance. During the famous Naval Review

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Tragedy at the Thirteenth Hole By Milea Burton, Collins, 78. su, net. The Tall House Mystery By A. Fielding Collins. 79. 6d. net. The three Crime Club mysteries of this month are centred round

"By the entry of the Turbinia astronomy, bootlegging, golf, and into the Naval Review the attention ghosts, with the first as the best of of the Admiralty was focused upon the three. Those who like a good the possibilities of marine propul thriller should not miss "The Fate sion for vessels of war." of 'Jane McKenzie."

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Jane McKenzie, of fabulous for- tune, had financed the erection gf.a huge observatory, named after her self, on the top of a mountain.

At-home the Bible has an enormous sale Last year the cir Not long ago, in. Kensington to culation was 415,000 complete Her dieappearance, on, the day & block of new flats, a young holl Bibles, 165,000 Testaments, and 277

ceman fell sixty feet down & lift sections. when she was expected to join the shaft. He broke ne bones, had s crowds at the observatory to view few abrasions, and the hospital re the solar eclipse, caused a great port on him next morning was 112 stir, but the police hardly enter quite comfortable. When he Mr. Hikobei Yamanaka, a into the tale.It is all reasoned out reached the bottom of the shaft be year-old millionaire and former by a vivacious newspaper reporter, had got up unaided. The official president of the Joso Railway but many ingenious complications explanation of this miraculous es- Company, was found dead on the follow before he ultimately clears cape is that there were struts jut-beach at Atami on June 2 after up the mystery.

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