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...town (no telephone) , rushed into his best suit, to Memorial Hall, and into a seat next to the Prince (at the Prince's insistence). The conversation presented pretty tough going for the local elite and even for the President and Fellows, for it dealt almost exclusively with fossil cycads (in which the Prince, like Dr. Wieland, had an ardent interest). The guests could hardly wait for the end of the luncheon and the end of boredom to edge closer to the Royal Presence. But no - when it was over the Prince suggested visiting Dr. Wieland's office. This...
...China Medical Board Inc. got $10,000 for further digging in the now famed caves at Chou-Kou-Tien whence came the fossil remains of "Pekin Man," generally considered by anthropologists to be the oldest human type ever discovered. C. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, got $61,200 to start and maintain for five years Canada's first university training school for prospective civil servants...
...balloon in 1935, the outstanding granite mountain whose top Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is blasting into the shape of Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's and Roosevelt's heads, the Wind Cave National Monument whose ten underground square miles have never been well explored, and the Fossil Cycad National Monument whose 360 acres preserve trees petrified 120,000,000 years...
Having his head full of many other things, including a sewage disposal plant on the Potomac, Secretary Ickes had his publicity-wise Personal Assistant Harry Slattery write this refusal to Paleobotanist Wieland: ". . . The subject of fossil cycads does not have a broad appeal. . . . The story can be effectively told by a display which, for the present at least, can be housed in the administration building at Wind Cave National Monument, 22 miles distant...
...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...