"Alice in Wonderland"—and Life "It such changes can be pro-ducod, do not think it means increase in longevity. All that mears is that the powers with whioh we are gifted will be utilize ed Fight up to the end; but we are not going to. increase the span of life." This clusion reached by Professor Winifred Cullis, in am lecture on "Monkey Glands and Others," delivered at King's College in gennexion with the Scientific Tt we want, explained, we must go to eugenics, as statis. Hes showed that the children of nts had an expecta-mor of Iile
}you, want long life, choose. long-than the amen population, "Tt Fivea' parents, she' ssid In the first part of her lecture Professor Cullis explained.the position and functions of the Abe fe lands of internal secretion, an said that their investigation formed ore of the real romances 'Thay were of eanscondant were of Hranscen terest, and appealed more tp the imagination than any other structures of the body. Giants and tall people were so because at the time of growth, the pituit ary gland was very' active; a deficiency of the gland caused dwarfs. "Experiments with this gland on animals had produced animals of great size, though not 0 Inrge a9 those imagined iv, Mr. Wells's story; and, in an exporiment on a boy, the result was that ho grew two and a half inches in Romparea Gasto expermnente. 9 jared these experiments. t the oxperierces of "Alice, in Wonderland," and said that these Jdelightful stories suggested more truth than their suthers knew.
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