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With William Beebe flashing romantic reports of the Sargasso Sea and Galapagos, and Roy Chapman Andrews cabling accounts of antediluvian exhumations in Mongolia, the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) was never more widely advertised than last year. There was the Scopes trial in Tennessee, which sent thousands of news-following New Yorkers and out-of-town visitors to stand at gaze before the evolutionary figures in the famed hall of the Age of Man. The Museum had 142,047 more visitors than in any previous year, 1,775,890 in all. Its subscribing membership increased...
...three searches, they had not found the "plains and meadows" of sargassum weed commonly reported as forming the Sargasso Sea (TIME, July 20) east of the West Indies. Small, shallow patches of the weed were encountered, and these teemed with marine life. "The Humboldt "Current is gone . . . is extinct.''* Nowhere had they encountered the sweep of icy water that flows up along the west coast of South America from the Antarctic. Volcanic disturbances, earthquakes, were blamed for some vast change in Pacific bathygraphy...
...With the Atlantic comfortably smooth, we are headed for the Sargasso Sea* and expect to resume our trawling and dredging there, which we had to abandon in March owing to high seas." Such was last week's, news of Explorer William Beebe, whose last wireless, reports (TIME, May 11) came from the neighborhood of Galapagos in the Pacific...
...Eton and Cambridge graduate), with a weak, attentive face, took charge, in 1920, of the $120,000,000 Field estate, of which he was the principal heir, is interested in arts, charities, sports, has been a liberal contributor to scientific explorations, notably that of William Beebe to the Sargasso Sea. Captain Roald Amundsen invited him to serve on an advisory committee when he was making plans for his recent polar flight...
...place of the Arcturus, which is a chartered vessel. Burning oil in Diesel engines, equipped with a 30,000-lb. gyroscopic stabilizer, the Vanadis will cruise long without refueling, will permit deep-sea dredging in heavy weather such as hampered Prof. Beebe's recent efforts in the Sargasso Sea (TIME...