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...front page. Well and good! But on that same day one of the world's leading physicists, Professor Franck of Gottingen, arrived for a four day stay during which time he delivered a series of three excellent lectures, and the CRIMSON doesn't know it yet! Wake up, old fossil, and become aware of the world about you, or else sink further into narrowness and ignorance and the well-earned contempt of the University!! Yours truly, Engene W. Pike...
...meaninglessly enormous chunks of time and space. For such laymen as prefer facts to fantasies, Author Benson ably, if condescendingly, puts forward geological facts (e.g.-the air ten miles above the equator is colder than that ten miles above the arctic circle; rainbows are round, so that no fossil-picks are required to apprehend them...
Diggers for the Field Museum, Chicago, returned last winter from the barrens of northern Argentina, bringing 3,000 pounds of fossil promacrauchenia (ancestor of the llama), glyptodonts (giant armadillos), toxodonts (hippopotami...
...discovery, in a coal mine on the windswept mountain slopes near Billings, Mont., of a fossil molar tooth of human appearance, mixed in with fossil clams and lizards known to belong in the Eocene period, 50 to 60 million years ago, caused a great deal of newspaper talk last autumn. But experts were inclined to view the molar as that of euprotogonia, doglike Eocene quadruped with manlike teeth in its bearlike-horselike head...
Errata. Subsequent examination of the fossil discovered last autumn at Trinil, Java (TIME, Oct. 11), and reported everywhere as another skull of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman, showed the relic to be an elephant's knee cap. The "Southwestern Colorado Man," lately deduced from a set of Eocene teeth, was a myth, the teeth having proved to be those of an antique horse.?Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Smithsonian Institution...