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...find thus announced last week by Dr. Julian H. Steward of the Smithsonian Institution was made in a cave near Utah's Great Salt Lake. As the water level in the lake sank, millennium after millennium, the caves around it are supposed to have been eaten out by the action of waves at the shore. The cave which yielded up Dr.Steward's fossil infant is now 365 ft. above the lake level. Yet the fact that the skeleton was imbedded in lake gravel on the cave floor indicated that the cave was inhabited soon after the water retreated...
China. The first skull of Peking Man was found in 1929 in limestone caves at Choukoutien, 20 mi. from Peiping. This apish oldster is now generally conceded to be 1,000,000 years old, most ancient of known human fossils. Last summer, two days before Sino-Japanese fighting broke out in north China, a native workman employed by the Rockefeller-endowed diggers at Choukoutien turned up an upper jawbone of Peking Man, containing six teeth. This was the first upper jawbone, although several skulls and lower jawbones had been found before. The new find was got safely to a museum...
...mind of Walter Lippmann has been open to visitors every day except Sunday, when a small admission fee is charged, and so any comment here would be superfluous. Anybody can go and see for himself. He will find the excursion listed in the guide book under the heading, 'Cave of the Winds...
Louis took him to Waimea Canyon, which in the sunlight displayed colors as brilliant as those of Grand Canyon. Louis was full of old legends and superstitions, and here he took time to seek of the fire goddess Pele, who roamed about Kattai digging caves as she searched for a home; but each cave held water, and she had to move on to another and another until she settled in one with almost no water, which was unfortunate, for ever after she was never quite as hot. At least so Louis said...
...great good friend of the late Andrew Carnegie whom he resembles,* Professor Wieland last week retorted warmly in the columns of Science that Fossil Cycad National Monument "has no more to do with speleology [cave lore] than the snowcap of Kilimanjaro. It must have been an oversight on the part of nature to put so much scientific clarity and loveliness only 22 miles from a cavern in a gulch and now surrounded by a sort of caravansary. That is not what the student of evolution exactly wishes to see first. . . . Will the 'public' be as dumb tomorrow...