Sunday, November 5, 1939
The DAILY NERRASKAN
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Visitors from all 48 states
have seen museum exhibits
Morrill haH, the university
museum, established a new record
"this autumn when a visitor from
Vermont signed hia name in the
record book near the entrance.
Previous to this time 47 states
had been represented end the
Vermonter made the count an
even 48. In addition, visitors from
every large country in the world
and many smaller countries have
signed their names.
Prof. Charles Bertrand Schultz,
assistant director of the museum, I
estimates that an average of
100,000 people visit Morrill each
year. This doesn't include stu
dents. The number signing the
record books is not an accurate
gauge, he says, because many peo
ple do not bother to leave their
names.
Canada provides the largest
number of visitors from other
countries. Nine Canadians dropped
in last summer, when attendance
is largest Five came from Eng
land, three each from China and
Japan, two from Greece and two
from New Zealand. One visitor
each came from Alaska, Sweden,
Finland, Scotland, Germany, Hol
land, Australia, Mexico, France
Belgium and Norway.
Three from Africa.
Since September 18, Africa has
sent 3, Canada 2, and Mexico,
Ireland, Porto Rico, Argentina,
and Columbia have each sent one.
Churches provide the largest
numbers of groups who wander
through Morrill's halls to gaze at
bony dinosaurs and sad-eyed mas
todons. Women's clubs are second
and school classes third. No
guides are provided but signs de
scribing the exhibits are plenti
ful. Museum officials have a lot of
trouble with people who try to
be funny and leave fake names
and addresses in the register book.
"Clark Gable" and "Robert Tay
lor" are the favorite pseudonyms
with Hitler, Mussolini, and Frank
lin D. Roosevelt tying for second.
Movie stars' names seem to be
the favorites with school children.
The museum employees haven't
much patience with these people.
They have to go through the di
rectory and cross out the phoney
signatures. They go to a great
deal of trouble to check accuracy.
Sometimes it's hard to guess
whether a signature is genuine.
The other day somebody signed
their address "Bombay, Africa"
and nearly got away with it be
fore it was remembered Bombay
isn't in Africa.
Sometimes the signers add a
little postscript. One reads "Rev.
Wenseclaus, C. S. C, Notre Dame,
Indiana, Known in world." Others
say "Jesus Saves" and sometimes
there are spiteful little messages
from museum-haters.
Scientists visit all year. '
Scientists come to the museum
all the year around, Prof. Schultz
says. In August, Dr. Edgar B.
Howard of the University of Penn
sylvania, foremost authority on
early man in America according
to Prof. Schultz, came visiting as
did Dr. N. E. Nelson of the Amer
ican Museum of Natural History,
number one authority on early
man in the old world.
Dr. LeRoy Kay, Carnegie Mu
seum authority on fossil reptiles
and dinosaurs also came in Aug
ust. i October, Charles H. Fal
kenbach, Frick Laboratory man
from the American Museum, was
there. So was Dr. Walter Granger,
leader in the Gobi Desert expedi
tions under Roy Chapman An
drwes. So many scientists come tr the
museum from foreign countries
that Prof. Schultz can't remember
them all. The museum is recog
nized as one of the greatest of its
kind in the world.
Rupp named
best judger
Student wins every
event in annual meet
Bob Rupp proved himself the
best poultry judge in the annual
student poultry judging contest
held on Ag campus last week
when he was picked the winner
in all divisions from a field of 51
entrants.
Members of the Cornhusker
Poultry Science club sponsored the
event, third of its kind to be held
and the largest the club has spon
sored. There were two divisions.
the senior for men trying out for
the university judging team, and
the junior for those who had had
no poultry judging work in col
lege. Rupp was entered in the
senior division.
Stanley Tryon, freshman, sur
prised all by placing second in the
entire contest and winning the
junior division. William Adam, an
other freshman, was third in the
entire contest and second junior.
Dexter Haws .senior entrant, was
fourth in all classes, and Norman
Stevens, another junior entrant,
was fifth.
Rupp received a dressed chicken
for first prize and a dozen eggs
went to the second place winner.
Ribbons were awarded to those
who placed in other classes.
Pharmacists
seek varicose
vein cure
Chemical research on a drug
which may be successfully used in
the treatment of varicose veins
will be promoted in the pharmacy
department this year.
The problem is to break the
drug down into a single pure ele
ment, according to Dr. Paul J.
Jannke, new pharmacy instructor,
who says the completed process
gives promise of a valuable chem
ical that may be highly effective
in the treatment of swollen veins.
Difficulty of the experiment is
to find an animal whose veins ap
pear in the outside of the body as
do human's. The problem could be
solved if it were possible to pro
duce a varicose vein on a rat. Un
fortunately, the rat's veins never
appear on the surface.
Other experiments, too.
Dr. Jannke also plans to investi
gate a new and more efficient
method of analyzing tincture of
iodine. The present method is only
moderately accurate and requires
a day's work. The pharmacist
hopes to perfect a technique that
will require less than an hour's
time.
Dr. Jannke became a member
of the Nebraska faculty last fall,
coming from the Kremers-Urban
company, pharmaceutical manu
facturers of Milwaukee. He was
with the company one year as re
search and control chemist.
His work at- Nebraska will be
mainly in the pharmaceutical
chemistry field. He will teach both
beginning and advanced courses.
NU doctor gets
research grant
Dr. Harald G. O. Hoick of the
college of pharmacy has received
$150 from the American Medical
association, the third grant within
three years, to continue research
on the relation of sex to the action
of sodium pentobarbital (Nembu
tal) and certain other hypnotic
drugs which are widely used to
day as pain deadeners, especially
m maternity cases and prepara
tory to operations.
From his extensive experiences
with rats, Dr. Hoick and his as
sistants found that male rats can
stand greater dosage and more
prolonged administration of these
drugs than females. Pregnancy,
however, produces a definite
change in the animal so that tol
erance to pentobarbital develops
ten times more frequently than in
adult virgin rats.
In other university researches
on the relation of sex to drug ac
tion, Dr. Hoick has observed that
in the case of Ouabain, a cardiac
drug, females are the more re
sistant.
To teach in Boston
Dr. W. R. Werkmeister of the
department of philosophy will
teach at Boston University durintr
the 1940 summer session. He will
offer courses in logical positivism,
the history of modern philosophy,
and the philosophy of science.
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