CRUEL TRICK.
RESULTS IN SCIENTIST’S SUICIDE. By Cable—Press Association—CopyrlfV, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. VIENNA, October 9. A dramatic disclosure lias been made in connection with the suicide of Professor Kammeror, who committed suicide on September 25.
lie left a letter from which it appears that Dr. Noble, of the Museum of Natural History, New York, suggested that certain markings on toads, whereon Professor Hammerer based remarkable claims concerning heredity, were faked by the insertion of colouring matter under the skin. Professor Kammcrcr confessed that h© found Dr. Noble’s accusations true, and added that “Someone must have played a cruel trick on me, tampering m ' V s P eciraens -” Ho concluded: the tvork of my whole lietimo is destroyed.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 12 October 1926, Page 9
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119CRUEL TRICK. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 12 October 1926, Page 9
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