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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue XIX, 30 October 1897, Page 589

The famous sphinx near the pyramids of Gizeh was thoroughly investigated by Protestor Erm an, who at a recent meeting of the Berlin Academy delivered a lecture aliout its probable age. Careful researc hes show that it could not have lieen built previous to the so-called ‘ Middle Kingdom,'or about 2,000 B.C. Between her front paws there was originally the image of a deity, all trace of which has at the present time dis apjieared. For the building of the colossal work more than twenty years must have lieen necessary, even if I,s<M> men had lieen employed all the time. An idea of chloroforming plants that sounds like a fairy tale comes from (’open hagen. A scientific Dane claims that a sleeping plant exposed for some time to the fumes of chloroform or ether is roused into activity, the effect of the anaesthetic on the plant lieing the reverse of what it is on an animal.