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Dunstan Times, Issue 3135, 18 September 1922, Page 2

Guy Wernham, the London hoy scientist who went out to the Cameroon*. West Africa, early in January on a. three vears' trip in place of his father, a professor oH botany, to collect specimens for the Natural History department of the British .Museum, has returned unexpectedly. He landed at Plymouth before his mother was aware of' th.' fact or could get 'funds to him to bring him to Loudon. Wernhanii is taller, and lias put on weight, and ■ fenernllv is in good health, hut the terrible loneliness of the jungle, 200 miles' iinlund. and the wildness of Jus surroundings have affected him considerably. The Washington (I'.S.A.) monument, solid as it is, cannot resist the heat of the sun poured on its .southern side on a mid-summer's day without a slight bending of the gigantic shaft. This is perceptible by means of a copper wire 174 ft long, hanging in the centre of the structure, and carrying a plummet suspended in a vessel of water. At noon in summer the apex of the monument, ooOft above the ground is shift by expansion of the stole a lew hundredths of an inch towards the north. High winds cause percentile motions of the plummet, and in still weather delicate vibrations of the crust are registered by it.