Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1909 — DR. COOK AND HIS DATA [ARTICLE]

DR. COOK AND HIS DATA

Explorer Says His Promise to Danish Scientists Will Be Kept. * Baltimore, Oct. s.—Dr. F. A. Cook was shown a dispatch from Copenhagen relative to his reported intention to request the university of that city to waive its claim to the first examination of his records. He said: . “I shall adhere to the original plan to have the University of Copenhagen make the first examination of my records, but shall ask that university« to withhold the announcement until the records shall have been examined simultaneously by all the geographical societies of the world." Dr. Cook said he expects the final verdict of all pcientlfic bodies upon his records within six months.