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...Mass., which has the best-equipped laboratory of marine biology in the world. In Princeton, he gets up every morning at six. Two mornings a week he tramps, in good weather and bad, the three-quarter mile from his red-roofed stucco house to his book-lined workshop in Guyot Hall. He also lectures regularly to graduate students. And, four mornings a week, he hops the 7:45 train to Philadelphia and goes to the headquarters of the American Philosophical Society...
...trunks. Only lately have the Great Smokies been accurately mapped, and then a plane had to fly back and forth over them for days. There are no roads yet through the heart of the region, but soon one will be built, presumably with a filling station on majestic Mt. Guyot and a hot-dog stand on massive Clingman's Dome...
Died. Yves Guyot, 84, leading "elder economist" of France, onetime Minister of Public Works, and editor since 1909 of the authoritative Journal des Economistes; at Paris...
Leaving Rock Creek, we turned north, climbing 1,000 feet by many of Mt. Guyot, and came to a gap at steep zig zags and skirting the east base 11,000 feet. Then, passing over flat areas covered with granite sand and huge pine, we came down to Crabtree Meadows, on the creek of the same name...
...nearby peaks of the Whitney group bear mostly the names of geologists, explorers, and other men of science (Whitney, Langley, Muir, Hitchcock, Guyot, Russell, Leconte, Tyndall, etc.), while our great peaks in southern California have "saint" names, (San Antonio, San Gorgonio, San Jacinto, San Gabriel, etc.)--Anglo-Saxon and Spanish contrasted, or science and religion, if you like. However, we have a Devil's Punch-bowl across the range from Pasadena...