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The Journal of Heredity 



of voluntary utterance by a sentient 

 being, and cries of pain or distress the 

 first involuntary ones. ... To cries of 

 the first nature might be added in turn 

 cries indicative of pleasure. These latter 

 would be largely personal." 



After self has been recognized, the 

 outside world would be taken into cogni- 

 zance. Food will be an important 

 subject; hence means of expressing the 

 relative position of place would take 

 precedence of time. 



In all man's progress, Mr. Migeod 

 ascribes an important place to geologic 

 changes, which kept him mo\'ing and 

 gave a new environment, which called 



forth and selected new attributes of his 

 mind. "This steady movement brought 

 higher races into contact with lower 

 races. If sufficiently ntimerous or pow- 

 erful in proportion they absorbed or 

 destroyed them. If they did not suc- 

 ceed in maintaining their superiority, 

 they themselves were liable to degen- 

 erate. So the reaction one on the other 

 has ever continued, till at the present 

 day, we find the highest evolved type 

 meeting the fragmentary remains of un- 

 progressiv^e types of earliest pre-human- 

 ity, and in the shape of gorillas and 

 orang-outangs treating them as wild 

 beasts to be destroyed when met with." 



Additional Facilities for Army Medical Museum Needed 



Uiging the importance of additional 

 facilities for the Army Medical Museum, 

 Major R. W. vShufeldt in the Medical 

 Record of October 20, 1917, states some 

 striking facts regarding the heavy bur- 

 den of work which is placed on the 

 Museum by the entrance of the United 

 States into the world war, the invaluable 

 aid to all scientific work which it will do 

 if facilities are provided, and the entire 

 inadcquateness of present equipment. 



Early in the Civil War, steps were 

 taken to collect together material of 

 every description relating to military 

 practice of medicine and surgery, con- 

 sisting of specimens collected at post 

 mortems and all kinds of military equip- 

 ment. This material was housed in the 

 old Ford's Theater on Tenth Street. To 

 the specimens were added all the field 

 reports and special histories of the great 



comljat. Although it was soon seen that 

 Ford's Theater was entirely inadequate 

 to house the valuable material, nothing 

 was done until a floor collapsed and 

 several clerks were killed or injured. 

 The government then supplied the pres- 

 ent building. 



This collection of enormous value is 

 already vastly too large to be housed in 

 the present building, which as Major 

 Shufeldt points out has been for years a 

 supren'ie joke. Since entirely different 

 methods are now being used from those 

 of the Civil War, a new musevmi of vast 

 capacity to house the materials which 

 will soon come flowing in in a huge 

 stream is an urgent necessity. All this 

 will require appropriations by Congress 

 for a new building and adequate equip- 

 ment to be placed under Colonel 

 Owen's control. 



War Makes Large Demands upon Horse Breeders 



That the steady drain of horses and 

 mules to the war fronts will cause a 

 great scarcity of animals after the war 

 is the opinion of the American Red 

 Star Animal Relief. Whatever sur- 

 plus America may have had is likely 

 to dwindle before the Allied nations 

 have satisfied their needs. From many 

 breeders comes the advice that every 

 good mare should be bred during 1918, 

 in order that America may be in a 

 position after the war to restock 

 Europe. 



Losses in the U. S. Army alone dur- 

 ing the period of six weeks ending 



January 12, 1918, amounted to 4,777 

 horses and mules, which represented, 

 at an average purchase price of $175 

 each an expenditure of $8v?5,975. A 

 great j^roportion of these deaths re- 

 sulted from influenza or "shipping 

 fever." Up to the present time no 

 satisfactory treatment or preventive 

 inoculation has been devised for this 

 disease. 



Since the l)eginning of the war, the 

 animal strength of the U. S. Anny has 

 been increased from 66,145 to 344,{)()0, 

 the War Department has announced. 



