INSIDE A WHALE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 227, 8 July 1941, Page 8

INSIDE A WHALE.

SCIENTIST AND JONAH STORY. In Philadelphia the other day a scientist gave an affirmative answer to the question whether the whale could have swallowed Jonah states “The New York Times.” Just to make certain, Dr. Eugene Maxmilian Karl Ceiling, Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Chicago, said he crawled through the gullet of one of the big creatures. This whale, of course, was dead. “It was a pretty .slimy trip,” Dr. Coiling remarked, “but there was plenty of room. “And a number of whalers up along the west coast of Canada, whose families have been whaling for generations hack, say their fathers told them of unquestioned cases in which men thrown overboard were swallowed. “Rliey were never seen again though.” Dr. Ceiling told of his trip into a whale while in Philadelphia, to receive Villanova College’s Mendel Medal, awarded annually ’ for outstanding achievements in science. The medal was given, not for hi.s interest in whales, but for his contribution to the knowledge of the pituitary gland, its relation to other glands, and his assistance in the crystallisation of insulin. . Dr. Ceiling took up tlie study of whales years ago as a sideline to his interest in the pituitary.