#eBook The Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni by Joseph Faus and James Bennett Wooding

"The Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni" is a short story and it takes place in Belleville, a small town in a mountainous valley "something like a day's run from New York."

The setup is that a mysterious Dr. Calgroni has come to town, from Vienna, and has rented the old Thornsdale place. The narrator knows Calgroni to be a surgeon.

He also knows that Calgroni has made extraordinary claims regarding the transplantation of organs from primates into men. Dr. Calgroni brings in some medical equipment and an assistant. He also acquires a gorilla from a traveling circus. All indications are that he is about to perform an extraordinary experiment.

James Bennett Wooding was born on December 27, 1897, in Springfield, Illinois, to Daniel James Wooding, a London-born publisher and real estate developer, and Augusta C. (Bennett) Wooding, whose father was also involved in real estate. He died on August 22, 1954, in San Antonio.
Daniel James Wooding (1860-1930) was in the newspaper business before going into the magazine publishing business. Died in 1930.

In Public Domain
First Published 1923
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