The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Weir, James

WEIR, James, American physician and author: b. Owensboro, Ky., 17 Oct. 1856; d. there, 9 Aug. 1906. He was graduated from the University of Louisville in 1878 and studied medicine there and in New York. He published &lsquo;Religion and Lust&rsquo; (1897); &lsquo;The Dawn of Reason&rsquo; (1898); &lsquo;Intelligence in the Lower Animals&rsquo; (1898).