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 ‘Religion and Lust’ (1897); ‘The Dawn of Reason’ (1898); ‘Intelligence in the Lower Animals’ (1898).