UNIQUE MUSEUM
PRESERVING FAMOUS BRAINS.
• LONDON, April 24
A Professor of Econoriiy has been appointed curator of a unique museum at Vienna, in which the brains of famous artists, scientists, writers, and others will be preserved under glass. An appeal is being made to leading men of intellect to enrich the collection. There is sufficient space to exhibit the brains of 1000 persons, who are asked to will them to the museum. The shapes and weight of the brains and skulls of men of genius will be thoroughly studied. The brain oi Hermann Sudermann, the playwright, bequeathed by the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin, has been examined microscopically, and fl. full analytical description of Sudermann’s qualities as a writer is being prepared parallel to the anatoprical research.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1931, Page 5
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