Show when yon need your brain no if when you open your mail dear reader yon receive a polite request for your brain do not be astonished the explanation is this Aj number of scientific men have formed an organization the purpose of which is to take the brains of distinguished persona after death and ludy them with a view to fuller both of medicine and mind dr joseph leidy is president of the organization and dr pepper decre tonyi both areef philadelphia A large number of persons have already promised to allow their brains to be examined when they have no further use for them and among these persona is the rev philips brooks of boston letters requesting brains have been sent out to nearly all the notable men and women of the country next summer at the meeting in washington of the congress of physicians and surgeons this organization will be perfected and associate members in the different cities will be authorized when that is done ou can do your family physician a special honor by bequeathing to him your brain which he will examine and report on or perhaps forward it to the specialists in philadelphia pittsburg times |