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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXX, Issue 12262, 5 January 1904, Page 3

The St. Louis, Exposition offers £30,000 as prizes for an aeronautical competition! and exhibition; £20,000 is offered as' a grand prize, for the air-fhip which- covers an L-shaped course round three ciptive balloons at the fastest speed. The untisual experiment of grafting frog skin ■on the hand of a patient has been, successfully performed at the homeeopathy hospital of the Michigan University by J> Westfall, who: secured'large live itoa,'. and, after destroying ifs brain, thoroughly cleaned the. skin, and) placed the particles on the area.-to be covered. These grafts were covered by a, very thin' rubber tissue, and that surrounded by dressing moistened by a; common salt solution, t After 96_ hours; the frog; skin grafts had_ united, .the result of the experiment proving most satisfactory, a. ;