[Photograph]: The Childhood of Great MenSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 24, No. 6 (Jun., 1927), p. 574Published by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/7788 .

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a74 THE SCIEN7TIFIC MONTHLY

THE CHILDHOOD OF GREAT MEN From Punch

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, AT THE AGE OF FIVE, HAS AN IDEA THAT LIGHTNING MIGHT BE BETTER

CONDUCTED.

LITTLE CHARLES DARWIN BEGINS TO CONSIDER.

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