MAJESTY OF MAN.
WONDERS OF THE BRAIN. “Nothing can surpass the brain of man,” said Professor W. W. Watts, famous scientist, in his presidential address at tho opening of the British Association conference at Norwich. It was understandable, Professor Watts remarked, why the Mesozoic mammoths lost their lordship of creation when it was remembered that the brain of the diplodocus—Boft. long and 2d tons in weight—was only the size of a hen’s egg, whereas the modern 12st. man had a 3£lb. brain. Professor Watts speculated on the eaith’s age, vanished continents and the continuous reshaping of the globe, all of which, he said, indicated that there was no vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end. Decline and early death, to which Lord Kelvin’s dictum condemned the earth, was now, said the speaker, transformed into a history of prolonged, though not perennial, youth.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 254, 24 September 1935, Page 2
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