PROFESSOR DUPED.
REASON FOR SUICIDE. STRANGE AUSTRIAN CASE. A. and N.Z. VIENNA. Oct. 10. A dramatic disclosure has been made in connection with the suicide last month of Professor Kammerer, a well-known scientist,. Deceased left a lot.ter from which it appears that Dr. Noble, of the Museum of Natural History, Now York, suggested that, certain markings on toads, on which Professor Kammerer has based remarkable claims concerning heredity, . were "faked" by the insertion of colouring matter under the toads' skin. In the letter Professor Kammerer confessed that he had found Dr. Noble's accusations lo bo true. He added that someone must have played a cruel trick on him by tampering with his specimens. "The work of my whole life has been destroyed," the letter concluded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19456, 12 October 1926, Page 9
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