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...what color are the eyes of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka's typical "Old American...
...Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, last year circled the earth peering intently into the faces of the people he encountered, scrutinizing their hair, their ears and jaws, their chins and cheekbones. When he returned last fall he remarked upon the strangeness of seeing "red Indians" in Asia, Negritos (a Philippine and African type), in India, yellow-haired and bearded women among black Australian aborigines. He is "a great one for remembering faces," a greater one for understanding, classifying them...
Last week Dr. Hrdlicka published the fruits of a long study of "Old American" faces. He had steered clear of inhabitants of the "inbred" New England and South Atlantic states and, since 1910, collected data on individuals descended from three and four generations of people that had lived in broader, but still wholly American, environments. Such people, "of well-determined, all-American ancestry," were much fewer than might have been supposed. But his studies extended to over 1,500 adults of both sexes, 937 being examined in detail...
From India through Java, Australia and Africa, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of the U. S. National Museum, scouted out new fields for scientific research. Returning last month to Washington, he reported several new species of fossil big apes in Siwalik Hills (Burma); a new place to dig in the Solo Valley, stamping ground of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman; two new cave men's skeletons from the Broken Hill country in Rhodesia, South Africa, source of the famed Taungs skull...
This was the statement of Professor E. A. Hooton of the Department of Anthropology yesterday. "Dr. Alex Hrdlicka of the National Museum in Washington is anxious to take several students interested in anthropology with him on an expedition beginning. April 1. He is setting out for a series of visits to the locations of former discoveries of prehistoric remains in Africa, Java, India, and Australia...