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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21812, 18 June 1936, Page 6

A flat-topped silver tankard not quite eight inches high brought £I2OO at auction at the American Art Association Anderson Galleries in New York recently. It was made by Peter Van Dyck, a New York silversmith, who died in 1750. A silver mug made by Paul Revere was bought for £275. A catalogue note said of this: —“Paul Revere, the outstanding American silversmith. was a person of remarkable industry besides being a patriot. While best known as a silversmith, he undertook the engraving of prints, carving of frames, and casting of bells and cannon. He was also a dentist, and included George Washington among his clients.”

Successful transplanting of the brain from one animal to another, with a resulting change in personality, has been achieved by a German scientist. Professor H. Giersberg, of the University of Breslau. By an extremely delicate surgical operation be planted in the heads of frog tadpoles the brains of toad tadpoles. Two of the test group matured as normal-looking frogs, and one assumed certain toadlike traits. It crawled like a toad, and kept digging shallow pits in wet sand, as toads dig themselves in daily. Frogs normally bury themselves only in winter.