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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them to a Johannesburg geologist named Young who was stopping by on business. Dr. Young took them to Dr. Raymond Arthur Dart, professor of anatomy at the University of Johannesburg. Laboriously scraping away the rocky mineral, Professor Dart uncovered a small, fragmentary skull with the face almost intact. The scientist quickly realized that he had in his hands one of the most important evolutionary finds since the discovery of Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape-man of Java. Geological evidence indicated that the skull, whose owner was christened Australopithecus, was 500,000 to 1,000,000 years...
...arisen" was Dr. Robert Broom, paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum in retoria. Last July another blast in another limestone quarry, this time at Sterkfontein, turned up another fossil brain case. The manager, urged by Dr. Broom to keep his eyes peeled for a Taungs ape, landed this to the scientist. Feverish earch disclosed the upper face, the skull base, the right jawbone with three teeth, a detached molar. Last week in Nature appeared a letter from Dr. Broom describing his find, with three photographs and a drawing...
This department also recorded the lectures of the noted visiting physicists who addressed the Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences. Including the talks of Robert A. Millikan, Arthur Holly Compton, Tullio Levi-Civita, Frank B. Jewett, and many other famous scientist, these records will be added to the Cruft Laboratory, which some times ago started a collection of scientific phonograph records...
Zoological President. Few if any scientists in Britain are more concerned with Science-in-Society than Julian Sorell Huxley. This owl-eyed, quick-thinking, quick-talking biologist of 48 is the grandson of the 19th Century's brilliant Biologist-Essayist Thomas Henry Huxley, the brother of Novelist Aldous Huxley, the grandnephew of Matthew Arnold. His most recent endeavors have been a tour of industrial and academic laboratories in Britain (Science & Social Needs), an examination of Science in Russia (A Scientist Among the Soviets), two popularizations written with a collaborator (Simple Science and More Simple Science}, a detailed blow...
Altogether the university's visiting staff will number fifteen noted scholars and scientist, representing institutions in the United States, and in England, France, Canada, Germany, Sweden, and Russia. Two of these were participants in the Harvard Tercentenary Conference of Arts of Sciences, during the first two weeks of September; and of the remainder, eight are now, or have been, full professors in their universities...