Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Erich von Drygalski, of the University of Munich, for south polar research, a David Livingstone medal...
Harvey C. Hayes, of the Navy Research Department, for a new ocean-floor measuring instrument, a Cullum medal...
...Indians, who are the present day dwellers of Yucatan, have for years been so hostile to explorers that little scientific research has been possible. Now that the attitude of the Indians is reported to be more friendly, Dr. Spinden believes there is a good chance that discoveries of importance will be made. The Mayas were a city dwelling people and the peninsula of Yucatan was once densely populated. Many great cities are known to have existed. In them impressive architecture, painting and sculpture, together with inscriptions and writings dealing with scientific work, have been found. Dr. Spinden reports that...
...growing importance which archaeology and thnology occupy in the estimation of he general public today Dr. Spinden attributes in large part to the wider sympathy between nations and their appreciation of the civilization of other aces and other times than their own. The Peabody Museum began its Mayan research in the eighteen eighties and has pursued the work so constantly that Harvard now has enviable archaeological possessions and facilities for study in this field...
...opening of the Yucatan Peninsula to scientific research is due largely to the work carried on by the American chewing gum industry and the United Fruit Company. In the interior the "Chicle Development Company has established several camps and trails which will be used by the Mason-Spinden Expedition. In Northern Honduras where Dr. Spinden hopes to continue his researches of recent years, the United Fruit Company has offered invaluable assistance in the cooperation of its personnel and the use of its planation clearings