Yes, Donuel,
Dr. John C. Lilly and his work with dolphins
are name-checked in Szilard's "Voice of the Dolphins."

My recollection, Joe F., is that
the historian writing the summary of the scientific institute
reports that:
the fictitious institute came to a sudden and somewhat murky end;
little evidence was preserved regarding dolphins;
it became public opinion, after the fact,
that the departed scientists made it all up about the dolphins --

leading it to the reader to speculate what is rumor and what is truth
in the end.