Science: Robinson Crusoe Ritter

Explorers in the Galapagos Islands have discovered a man and a woman living alone, like the hero and heroine of some improbable fiction, on a desert island 500 miles from the South American mainland. The explorers asked some questions, left a year’s supplies. They learned that the sun-browned, crudely clad gentleman was no castaway, but a German scientist, Dr. Karl Ritter. He once lived in Berlin, has a wife in Baden. Last July, tired of civilization, anxious to study the effect of uncooked foods on the digestion and sunlight on the skin, he projected the Galapagos venture. First he visited a dentist who extracted all his fallible human teeth and substituted durable artificial ones. Then he set forth with a devoted female assist ant.