Mouse & Dog Man

Everywhere that Dr. Clarence Cook Little (Sc. D.) goes, there go his mice and Scotch terriers. They followed him from the assistant directorship of the Carnegie Institution station for Experimental Evolution at Washington (resigned 1922), from a research association at Harvard Medical School (resigned 1921 and again 1925), from the presidency of the University of Maine (resigned 1925), and from the presidency of the University of Michigan (resigned last spring). Last week the mice were at Bar Harbor, Me., in the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research, of which Dr. Little has taken charge. The dogs were waiting for a home in New York City; for last week their master became managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer.

Dr. Little's love of dogs is a projection from his healthy boyhood in and around Boston; his fondness for Scotch terriers in particular is an inheritance from his father, James Lovell Little, earliest breeder of the type in the U. S. Mice helped him get his doctor of science degree at Harvard, where he studied biology and genetics. While he was busy at administrative duties at the Carnegie Institution, the University of Maine and the University of Michigan, he kept mice (1,000 of them at Ann Arbor), studying as an avocation the heredity of their colors, of their susceptibility or non-susceptibility to cancer. That avocation has now become his profession. He will shuttle between the cancer research laboratory at Bar Harbor and the offices of the cancer control society in Manhattan.