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British scientists look ahead. An eminent one ? the president of the Royal Anthropological Institute ? last week wrote to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka,* curator of physical anthropology in the National Museum (Washington, D. C.), to notify him that he had been honored with the Huxley Memorial Medal? for 1927 and would be expected in London a year from November to deliver the 1927 Huxley lecture before the Royal Anthropological Institute. No U.S. scientist save Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard (in 1908) had been so honored. It was recognition, gratifying indeed, of Dr. Hrdlicka's whole career, and in particular...
...memory of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), who is probably better known to the average U.S. undergraduate today as a character in a ribald polysyllabic ditty beginning: Recent exhaustive researches By Darwin and Huxley and Hall . . . than as the biologist who first generalized upon the development of ectoderm and endoderm, who "freed British scientific thought from its vice of deductive reasoning," who interpreted, clarified, broadened the Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis...
...Born at Fairfield, Conn., in 1857, Henry Fairfield Osborn was graduated in 1877 from the College of New Jersey (which became Princeton University in 1896). He accompanied Princeton explorations in the Far West, studied anatomy and histology in Manhattan, biology in Britain with Balfour and Huxley (meeting Darwin there), taught at Princeton until 1890, when he was chosen curator of vertebrate paleontology by the Museum he now heads. He has prosecuted extensive fossil explorations for the Museum, discovering and identifying many lost species (especially reptiles and pachyderms), and building up the largest collection of vertebrate fossils in the world. Among...
...amusing and well written story, describes strange events in a quiet English village. "The Constant Nymph" is one of the most pleasant and vivid stories that has appeared for some time, and will make everyone hope for more novels by Margaret Kennedy. D. H. Lawrence's "St. Mawr," Aldous Huxley's "Those Barren Leaves," and Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" all seem to have their admirers. There has been another title added to the English version of Marcel Proust--"The Guermantes Way." As usual the translating is excellent, and the book is in many respects the most fascinating of this...
...growing popularity of wit for wits sake both in literature and in the drawing-room has led the editors of the Bookman to suggest that contemporary society in living in another age of Pope. The ascendancy of the light, smart novel as exemplified by Arlen, van Vechten, Huxley and their school, the Restoration atmosphere of the stage, the cynicism of the columnists--all point, they think, to "the hollowness of the times, a Godlessly clever...