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hp TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1948 THE DAILY [TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE THIRTEEN Book on Rodents | Is Millionaire's | Twenty-Year Task By NORMAN CRIBBENS Eastbourne, Sussex, England -- (CP)--RBritain's richest man, 38- year-old Sir John Reeves Ellerman, is-nearly at the end of a task he began 20 years ago--the writing of a ee-volume book entitled "The Families and Genera of Living ts." Tall, with long brown hair and a nervous smile, he is often called Britain's shyest millionaire. His for- tune, built on shipping, land, brew- eries and newspapers, is estimated at £37,000,000 ($148,000,000) and is shared by his Canadian wife, for- merly Esther de Sola of Montreal. Sir John has been collecting in- formation for his 750,000-word book _ since he was 18, but the idea for it was born when, as a boy, he kept porcupines as pets. He was 23 when his father, a shipping magnate, died, leaving him the greatest fortune ever re- corded in Britain--an estate of nearly £40,000,000. The world of trade lay before him but, instead, he chose the world of rodents. The family business, headed by 8ir John's cousin, Sir William Cox, continued to prosper--and Sir John's book on rodents grew larger and larger. The final chapters are being written in his 20-room man- sion standing In two acres of wood- ed land encircled by a six-foot wall topped with a three-foot hedge. Complete Seclusion Here Sir John enjoys complete seclusion. His name appears in no directory. His telephone is not list- ed and is known only to a few in- timate friends. Few people in East- _ bourne would know him if they saw him, . In the writing of his book, Sir | John has been assisted by his wife, | who studied art in London and | Paris before she married him in 1033. As Lady Ellerman she has | made many of the sketches of | skulls, jaws and skin formations | which will be used as illustrations. | The book, described as "colossal" | by zoologist M. A. C. Hinton, wha | is editing it, will be dedicated to the | late Sir William Cox. Sir John is a trained accountant BMRand his book is said to be as syste- matig as an auditor's report, as oh- jective as a halance sheet. Year hy year, probing all the evidence which | other experts have produced, Sir | John whittled the 440 forms or groups of redents which had begn given full generic rank down to 343. game days he does research at the Mendon zoo and the Natural History Museum. The staffs there are pledged to silence about his | work. So is his secretarial staff. VERSATILE MATERIAL Gypsum, one of the world's most, plentiful materials, is also one ot | the most versatile, having at least 900 purposes. It is mostly used in plastering. } | | PRESCRIPTIONS Burr and Brague In West's Speech Winnipeg--(CP)--To the ears of a noted English linguist and writer | --Dr. E. W. M. Tillyard, master of | | Jesus College, Cambridgg--a Scot- tish burr and Irish brogue are more easily recognizable in Western Can- adian speech than a Yankee twang. Dr. Tillyard said he found the in- | | fluence of the English spoken in Scotland and Ireland heavy in the speech of westerners. "A lot of Scots came over here, didn't they?" he asked durimg an interview. Discussing education, he said sfu- dies in how to write and express oneself should be cdmpulsary. "We must separate teaching of how to write English and the appre- ciation of 'great authors." Literature "should not be forced on anyone. Dr. T:ilyard offered the opinion that the best way to spread liter- ary appreciation in Winnipeg, for example, would be by means of small study groups. People should start with whatever kind of reading in- terested them, but should broaden their interest later. Asked if basic English had a fu- ture, he replied, "I hope not. It puts a wrong twist on the language, emphasizing the noun. 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