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...fathers and a godfather were concerned. Thereby hung a tale, unrevealed until last week, of how a handsome apology enabled great concord to grow out of the furious spat in Geneva last May between glacial, correct British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and humorous, mercurial French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Knowing nothing of Sir John's deep sorrow at his childless second marriage,* M. Barthou lapsed accidentally into offering a deadly insult to Sir John. The issue was a plan not devised by the Briton but to which he had given approval. "It seems, Sir John," flashed M. Barthou, "that...
This dramatic cataclysm was prosaically described last week in an effort to show that it was true. Its describer was Dr. Alexander Du Toit of Johannesburg who, defending the widely held ''displacement hypothesis," brought into court recent studies of fossils, glacial records and sedi mentary rocks of southern lands now separated by water. So much alike are these records at corresponding stages, urged Dr. Du Toit, that they must have been deposited in one undivided land. But the geological record of the southern hemisphere as a whole is utterly different from that of the northern-which would show...
...periods of roughly 11,000 years, then lapses for an equal period while the southern hemisphere takes its turn. Confirmation of this astronomical hypothesis Dr. Antevs had last week in varves: layers of sediments deposited, one layer a year, by melting glaciers. The varves are light-tinted when glacial ice melts fast (hot summers), dark-tinted when it melts slowly (cool summers). Dr. Antevs counted and deciphered 35,000 varves, found a cycle of alternately cool & warm summers in close agreement with the Spitaler calculations...
...caustic which Dr. Cutler prefers is a "modified Carnoy's solution": absolute alcohol 6 c. c., chloroform 3 c. c., glacial acetic acid i c.c., ferric chloride 1 gm. The solution practically "tans" tissues it comes in contact with. Dr. Cutler uses it to toughen cysts which he must scoop out of brains...
...National Academy of Science meeting at Ann Arbor last week, he set the number of years at some 200 centuries. That would make the Minnesota maid more than 10,000 years older than any human remains yet discovered in North America. She was found under twelve feet of glacial drift in Ottertail County, Minn.-first proof that man lived on this continent during glacial times. Next month Dr. Jenks's Minnesota maid will be a cynosure at the Atlantic City gathering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Trained eyes will understand why the anthropologists and paleontologists...