When Elen Cecilie Gjesdahl was declared unfit to care for her infant son, Peder, because of her severe depression, he was placed with her older sister, Bertha. That placement in Copenhagen, Denmark, was the pivotal event in Peder's life. Bertha Cecilie was married to Henrik Krøyer, a distinguished marine zoologist, who agreed to raise her young nephew. Considered mentally backward, Peder was educated at home by his foster mother until his skill at drawing became apparent to Krøyer. When his foster father asked the artistically inclined 9-year-old to look into a microscope and draw what he saw, Peder intently looked down at the slide. He then turned away to reproduce from memory exact replicas of the crustacean . . . [Full Text of this Article]