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Featured at the discussion will be a public lecture on Thursday evening by Dr. Harry L. Shapiro '23, on "The Pitcairn Islanders," at the Geographical Institute. Shapiro published a book, "The Heritage of the Bounty," last year, on the results of his trip to the lonely Southern Pacific Island...
...Pitcairn Island group, well known from the novels of Nordhoff and Hall as the refuge of the "Bounty" mutineers, is scientifically remarkable as a classic of inbreeding and racial mixtures...
Headquarters of the association will be at the Hotel Commander, but the meetings will be held at the Faculty Club except for the Pitcairn talk. The Association's Annual Lecture, which will be at the Geographical Institute...
Shapiro's conclusions on the effects on a small group of inbreeding for a century and a half, were that it had not caused degeneration among the Pitcairn Islanders. The dangers of this practice, he decided from the Pitcairn evidence, came from inherent defects in the stock, and not from the accepted taboos on the subject...
...sold. In the first three days, sales of ten more Cubs were reported at $1,270 each. Similar success attended the rival Taylorcraft. Last week, Horace Keane Co. had a slick white Ace Monoplane with a Ford V8, out to rival Arrow. The Bureau of Air Commerce showed its Pitcairn readable autogiro. It was supposed to drive in through the streets, but Manhattan's police said it would have to get an automobile license. So it rode ignominiously to the Show in a truck...