CHILDREN TO GROW WILD ON ISLAND.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4453, 14 August 1922, Page 3

CHILDREN TO GROW WILD ON ISLAND.

GERMAN SCIENTIST PROPOSES TO

EXPERIMENT.

A tropical island, will serve as the theatre of a singular experiment, of which the originator and organiser is the German author Rudolph Requadt. Six baby boys apd girls of gome highly civilised race are to be exposed on an uninhabited island, which, however, is to be rich in fruits and. small game, so as to provide the children with favourable food and afford propitious climatic conditions. Systematic observation of the growth and mental, as weU as physical, development of the childrep will take place from a concealed vantage that will hot be noticeable to them. Notes about their life will be taken every day, and a kinematograph will figure as an important aid in the systematic observation.

The children are tp remain on the island without any direct contact with anybody from babyhood until, the age pf maturity. The experiment is designed to coptribute highly important material to the physical as well as the biological study of man. The strictly scientific results of the ob servations on the island will be put at the disposal of universities, while the features that will appeal to the popular taste will be pubished in book, form and in connection with the films, which will be brought before the American and European public.

Herr Requadt just now is op a tour 'of study in the tropical zone with the aim of finding an island suitable to the promulgation of his experiment.