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...Edmund Newton Harvey was once reported eaten by cannibals near the Torres Strait south of New Guinea, but the U. S. Department of State later announced that the report was exaggerated. Having done biological research from Maine to Puget Sound, from Tortugas to California, in Naples, Bermuda, the Philippines, Java, The Netherlands East Indies, Dr. Harvey, safe & sound, is now a professor of biology at Princeton. His wife. Ethel Browne Harvey, is a distinguished biologist. For a quarter-century. Edmund Harvey has experimented much, read enormously, to learn all he could about the phenomenon of bioluminescence-production of light...
...week lay the U. S. battle fleet, its maneuvers completed, its next job not yet laid out. Beyond the battle fleet and across the Pacific many a U. S. businessman cast an uneasy mind's eye. For south and east from the foot of Thailand (Siam) across the Java Sea to Papua lie The Netherlands East Indies, whence the U. S. gets major portions of two strategic materials: rubber and tin. With The Netherlands at war, Japan might cut off that supply, alternatively might exploit a grab by controlling production, prices...
...Java the People's Council ordered watch kept on the activities of two Nazi newspapers in Batavia, and in Semarang a committee of "action against internal enemies" began military training. Of the 32,000 foreigners in The Netherlands East Indies, 7,300 are Germans, 7,200 Japanese...
...scientists found some differences in the Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus skull shapes, but also some exact resemblances, even in minor structural details. Peking Man's molar and premolar teeth are more primitive, but Java Man has a wide gap between his canines and incisors-an extremely apelike feature never before found in a human or nearly human creature. On the whole, the resemblances between Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus led their analysts to regard them as "related to each other in the same way as two different races of present mankind, which may also display certain variations in the degree of their...
Koenigswald and Weidenreich agree that the Java "ape man" as well as the Peking man is definitely human, and that the Peking Man specimens are probably older chronologically (from geological evidence). It remains uncertain which of the two is the more primitive from the point of view of evolution. That question may be answered if, on some happy day, anthropologists stumble on a common Pliocene Age ancestor of China's and Java...