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...Biosphere. Vernadsky began as a mineralogist, soon enlarged his studies to embrace the whole "biosphere," which he denned as the area where life exists-from about two miles underground to the top of the atmosphere. He liked to put man in his place by pointing out that "living matter, by weight, constitutes an insignificant part of our planet" (roughly one-quarter of 1%), and that if all human beings were collected in one place they would occupy an area not quite as large as Switzerland's Lake Constance...
Retirement of Professor Charles Palache, noted mineralogist who has been at Harvard since 1895, was announced by the University yesterday. He has been appointed professor of Mineralogy, emeritus, effective next September...
...transmit his enthusiasm to the audience whose absorbed interest made them hang on every word. Incidentally, Professor Palache is one of the world's authorities on diamonds, and tomorrow's lecture on the occurrence of diamonds and diamond mines should be as interesting to the layman as to the mineralogist...
...probe big, black Carlsbad Cave, the vastest known cavern in the earth, and disturb the millions of bats living therein. Frank Ernest Nicholson, 28, Texas-born journalist-explorer, within the fortnight will take a typewriter, radio transmitter, telephone with lengthy wire, block & tackle, torches, cameras, food, a physician, a mineralogist, an electrician, a representative of the Department of the Interior and four helpers to a cliff of the Guadalupe Mountains 100 miles from El Paso, Tex., and 30 miles south of Carlsbad, N. Mex. Near the cliff's foot is the cave's mouth...
...tube was found in the litter and restored to its owners, Dr. E. S. Lain and Dr. M. M. Roland. The tube contained a grain of radium, worth $4,000; had been thrown away by a careless nurse and located approximately in the dump heap by use of a mineralogist's divining instrument for radioactive substances. During the five-day hunt, a hog whose headquarters were at the dump ground was kept under observation...