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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince Albert?" Prince Consort Albert, needless to relate, deserved well of Science by his indefatigable championship of the Great Exposition of 1851 against the opposition of both the Lords and Commons, and his employment of its surplus profit of ?150,000 to found the present Victoria and Albert Museum, in London. Throughout his life he exhibited a passion for developing British industry which vented itself even upon such details as persuading individual crockery makers to improve the design of their slop-jars. The meeting progressed to a climax in which Lord Balfour thanked Edward of Wales for presiding. Pompously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wales' Speech | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...Wales, the august members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting last week in Oxford, deployed about the town to attend various section meetings, where marvel after scientific marvel was related demonstrated or predicted. Evolution. Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, was there as a guest to expatiate upon the enormous difference between Evolution as it is understood today and as it was debated in Oxford half a century ago by Darwin's champion, Thomas Henry Huxley, and empurpled Bishop Wilberforce. (The difference: Darwin saw discontinuity where modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Advancers | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...Inness put his foot through it. Officials from a museum admired a summer evening. Inness smeared his thumb in yellow, pushed it across the moon. "Stay there," he said, "until I make you white. . . ." He painted a few draped figures. Nudes, with the controlling necessity for form, were a tax upon his patience. They were also a tax upon his knowledge for he had never learned the grammar of art; he composed with genius, but his drawing would not parse. He was a master of tone. His pigment, always transparent, was thinned with a vehicle-Siccatif de Haarlem or Siccatif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Inness | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...expedition backed by the Mexican government and headed by Professors Enrique Palacios and Miguel Mendesabal of the National Museum reported finding also in wild Chiapas a Mayan city older even than Palenque, a city dating to 1000 B. C. Guards were posted to prevent avaricious Indians from plundering the ruins, as they invariably try to do in search of Montezuma's* treasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...Grand Canyon, along the Hermit Trail, U. S. National Museum men busied themselves making photographs of what some took to be tracks of a prehistoric 8-legged 16-toed animal in shale and sandstone strata, 400 ft. lower than any foot printed strata known thereabouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

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