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...John Campbell Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, who directs excavations in Mexico and the Southwest, had asked Col. Lindbergh to make the pictures at Pecos near Santa Fe. The request followed the flyer's telling the doctor with awe of a Mayan temple city he had accidentally seen last February while flying over Quintana Roo, jungle- covered Mexican territory. Two green eyes had seemed staring up at him from among the trees. He flew lower. The eyes became pools before a pyramid temple. Tumbled around were the ruins of a city approximately eight miles in diameter...
...Busch James D. Cunningham Charles Piez William Ruggles Dawes George McClelland Reynolds George 0. Fairweather John Fitzpatrick Carl Richter Harold Edwin Foreman J ulius Rosenwald Earl George Gubbins Herbert D. Simpson J. L. Jacobs James Simpson D. F. Kelly Albert Arnold Sprague Clayton Mark Silas Hardy Strawn Charles Edward Merriam A. W. Swayne Melvin Alvah Traylor Joseph Roberts Noel Frank F. Winans Victor A. Olander George Woodruff
...guess. Two States have since passed laws like Tennessee's. Other states ban evolutionary textbooks from the public schools. Therefore, the executive committee of the A.A.A.S. at its spring meeting adopted a resolution, prepared by famed Drs. Edwin Grant Conklin, Samuel Jackson Holmes, Henry Fairfield Osborn, John Campbell Merriam and Robert Andrews Millikun, published in Science, setting forth, "the present status of Evolution" in four points...
John Campbell Merriam, 59, paleontologist, educator, has been president of the Carnegie Institution since 1920 and administrator of its 13 subsidiary bodies of scientific research. He is a veritable tycoon. But where most tycoons are acquisitive of fortunes, he is a dispenser...
...live entirely bleak and barren lives. They may improve their minds. For light reading, they will have: The Little Blue Books (1,280 volumes donated by the Haldernan-Julius Co.), the Harvard Classics, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a set of the works of Rudyard Kipling (Doubleday, Doran), a dictionary (Merriam...