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Most of the renovations have centered about the third floor and it is here that the new acquisitions have been located. Among the new cases, the display of specimens brought back by the Universities Alaskan expedition, which shows antlers and skulls of prehistoric bison in a remarkable state of preservation, has a prominent place. Included the same case are specially prepared exhibits of insectivora...
...scientific confirmation." His associates proceeded to discuss among other things: The Nose of the American Negro (Dr. George Dee Williams, St. Louis;; The Clavicle of the American Negro (Dr. Robert James Terry, St. Louis); Body Proportions of Adult Catarrhine Primates (Dr. Adolph Hans Schnltz, Baltimore); Dental Caries in Living Alaskan Eskimo (Henry B. Collins Jr., Washington); Notes on Cheyenne Anthropometry (Dr. Truman Michelson, son of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson, Washington...
...knowledge his province, he instructed in education and philosophy, became at 30 the youngest full professor of philosophy Columbia had ever had. One summer he helped dig in the Bad Lands to discover the Uintatherium and a Mesonyx. Another summer he went off to Alaska to help found the Alaskan Society. Always Dr. Butler has scurried busily about the U. S. and the world. Before he was 30 he had lectured in every state in the union. That, says he, is one reason why he knows the temper...
Flights of such special nature are frequently undertaken by aviation companies in Alaska but Alaskan Airways (pioneered by the late Carl Ben Eielson) is now also operating monthly passenger & express service between Anchorage and Bristol Bay (southern coast), weekly beI tween Anchorage and Bethel (southwest), weekly between Fairbanks and Nome, monthly between Fairbanks and Wiseman (above the Arctic Circle), weekly between Fairbanks, Fort Yukon & Dawson (Yukon). Compared to domestic U. S. airways, Alaskan fares are high ($200 between Fairbanks & Nome). But they are much cheaper than the only other means of winter travel-dogteam. The Fair-banks-Nome flight takes...
...have been put nearly out of business. The dogteams first began to suffer when the airplane companies gained a toehold on the passenger and express business; but they still had the mail. Finally this year the air services were permitted to bid for the mail and two companies, Alaskan Airways and Pacific International Airways,* won all the contracts...