Apparently in the early 20th century librarians did much more than their desk job required. Here is an article I stumbled upon from 1921 that describes F. Martin Duncan, librarian to the Zoological Society, in his attempt to hypnotize a "wild, uneducated female lobster...selected at random from a fish monger's slab."He was able to put the lobster in a trance long enough to stand it on its head for about five minutes.
Just goes to show librarians are jacks of many trades. What will we do next?
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