Literature, Science, and Art
Anon
Genre: | Regular Feature, News-Digest, Spoof |
Subjects: | Societies, Botany, Geology, Ethnology, Human Development, Anthropology |
Reports that experiments at the 'Royal Farinaceous Society' prove that a substance produced by the roots of the cassava plant is a 'sure prophylactic against lassitude' when drunk with brandy. Reports the discovery of a waistcoat button in the older pliocene beds of Bedfordshire, and regards this as evidence for the existence of man 'at a period long anterior to the dates hitherto current in geological circles'. Expects such news will lead to a 'serious revolution in anthropological science'. |
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