Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1931, Page 11

Ant Building Unit o Have Special Exhibits of Relics and History. Special Dispatch to The Mex., August 251 N. m'inbf%gcu exhibits are being arranged for formal open pul of the first unit of ti an c‘bl. laboratory l‘urm opening 1al , Wwho is oneof the foremost archeologists in the United States, and Wwho for many years was of Mesa Verde National Park, will pre- ;xl‘qe at the ceremony marking the open. t is include ‘U States Se s nited “.fe& nator Cutting unit consists of two large hails and an auditorium, in | ceremony will be held. , which fills a long-felt wamt in American anthre- | pology, was made possible through the | erosity of John D. Rockefeller, jr., | who donated $300,000 for its building | and a income to maintain | During that tlme"x‘\;‘l tory mmrflr a service t is to preserve in New Mexico the fine examples of | art which were rapidly being | taken out of the State to add to the| collections of %nwuml all over | the h the Indian arts fund, direction of Kenneth Chap- man, it amassed ;L. Rusbaves, director of the | Plant Is Anesthetized Sensitive Mimosa Pudica Reacts to Drugs Which Pro- duce Insanity in Humans by Reversible Coagulation BY THOMAS R. HENRY. ents with a ‘“‘crazy” plant, whm new light on the chemical basis of the behavior of living things. have just been reported to the National Academy of Sciences by Prof. Wilder D. Bancroft of Cornell University. The experiments show that plants, as to the Well as animals, can be anesthetized, e new|and that both major divisions of the ) The ! living world are rendered insensitive by various drugs for the same reasons and behave in approximately the same way. Ds. Bancroft and his assistant, John E. Rutzler, jr, worked with the well ondent | known “sensitive” plant, Mimosa pudic kept as a curiosity in many conserva- ories, which has an almost animal-like nsitivity to touch, its leaves folding speak |up at the ¢ ghtest stimulation as if it | o o e o 'm_;wexc possec 2d of a nervous system. . A. V. Kidder of | Changed Protein Semsitivty. ‘The e nts are a continuation by Prof. Bancroft last tended to show that the mec] for animals in- sensible, as well as for such extreme variations in human behavior as the varjous insanities, is the thickening and hinning of the proteins of the central | nervous system. Either result can be brought about by the use of different drugs. bring about one effect are antagonistic to the other, the end of both is tivity, and in either case this is pre- ceded by a period of excitement cor- responding 10 insanity. Thus a person becomes very excited just before lapsing into unconsciousness from ethe thickens the brain colloids. to produce if the drug sodium thiocya- nate, which thins.the brain proteins, is sdministered at the same time. Now, while a plant hgs no “brain” or nervous system, its oells eontain pro- teins, chemical Poktery, | dition, under this mine behavior. d | stiil more, or a dose of sodium thiocy- 'During August Only One car wash with | each purchase of a | Firestone High Speed | or Heavy Duty Tire— | or one car wash free | with each purchase of a pair of Oldfield Tires. ' FREE BRAKE [Test and Adjustment fwith each oil change | ‘pr lubrication job. Firsstone Service ate to thin them out, it would pass T into insensibility. Plant Given Anesthetic. NEW Those that | sensi- whicl On_the | other hand, ether anesthesia is difficult of Proteins. sodium thiocyanate and ether, Dr. Ban- croft sprayed a plant with the former chemical, 50 that the leaves comid not be made to close. Then ether was poured on the soil. Only after six min- uates did the ether begin to have the slightest effect, in contrast to the con- trol plant which had folded up com- pletely in four minutes. The leaves of | the second plant did not fold up at all. Only the stems of the leaves drooped slightly, but 17 minutes later they were all erect again. Then another plant was given the | same ether treatment, The leaves | closed ang their stems fell in two and | one<half minutes. Then this plant was sprayed with sodium thiocyanate and |in 8 minutes was recovering rapidly from its anesthesia. Confirms Oid Theory. Prof. Bancroft fgund one striking dif- terence between plants and animals in | that the former are much more sen- | aflv. to either e&ffl' or chloh:'oform L\::n sodium ‘which little an- wmmfl on them. He found, | as in animals, that plants pass through a preliminary stage of excitation before becoming_ insensitive. 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