THYROID GLANDS
SCIENTISTS* REMARK ABLE EXPERIMENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, February 20. A grandson of the famous Huxley, Julian Huxley, and another biologist, both of Oxford University, have made interesting experiments and discoveries concerning thyroid glands, a preparation from which, imparted to tadpoles, dovelops frogs in three weeks instead of three months." They imparted thyroid glands to a Mexican tadpole, which only twice or thrice in known history, develops a sort of frog or salamander. Huxley's treatment brought rapid and complete development, with the addition of certain points unknown before. Huxley's latest discovery is to control the sex of frogs by thryoid glands, obtaining 90 per cent, of males at will.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10521, 24 February 1920, Page 6
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