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...make a speech to the curators, trustees, members. Professor Huxley, whose favorite recreation is "bird-watching," had much to say which a naturalist would find interesting. A distinguished scientist in his own right, he is the grandson of the late famed Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), popularizer of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Professor Huxley complimented the Bostonians on their century's work, emphasized the need for instructing the public in natural history. To illustrate how interested laymen are in animals, he said that in a radio address he had mentioned the strange habit English sparrows have...
...Australia. For nearly three years the record of Pilot Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler-15½ days from England to Australia-withstood all assaults. Last week Australians went wild with joy when their own idol, Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith, landed his Avro Avian Southern Cross Jr. at Port Darwin ten days after leaving Heston Airdrome, north of London. Apart from the glamour of Kingsford-Smith's mission-going home after his trans-Atlantic flight to marry Mary Powell of Melbourne-the race was full of human interest. Of three others who essayed the route within the month, Capt...
...were nearly even for the last hazardous lap across the Timor Sea. Then Lieut. Hill was forced down on the Island of Timor and, in trying to take off again, his plane overturned. The Southern Cross Jr., sweeping past Timor in an attempted nonstop dash to Port Darwin, ran into headwinds and was also forced back to land at Timor. Next day Kingsford-Smith took it off safely, finished the 12,000-mi. flight...
Since the evolutionary theory has influenced all branches of science, scientists have attempted to unite everything in a pattern of continuous development. As Charles Darwin and his contemporaries removed the definite boundaries between man and the rest of the animal kingdom, so scientists have united animal life and plant life. Upon the animal-plant dividing line, organisms were discovered which never have been definitely classified, showing relationship to the simplest animal and yet having the chlorophyll (the green pigment in plants which in the presence of sunlight is responsible for photosynthesis, the union of carbon dioxide and water to form...
Britain's Amy. Scarcely noticed by British newsmen when she took off alone in her tiny Gipsy-Moth biplane from Croydon, Amy ("Call-me-Johnnie") Johnson landed last week at Port Darwin, Australia, a national heroine. Three days behind the record of Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, Miss Johnson's 11,500-mi. flight in a little secondhand, patched-up airplane, over perilous terrain and sharky waters, with an infected hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this...