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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...totally unable to cope with the utter breakdown of transportation. The onetime U. S. Army of Occupation Headquarters at Coblentz was inundated by 20 feet of water. The statue of Wilhelm der Zweite atop the great Hohenzollern Bridge over the Rhine looked out upon a seemingly limitless dirt-yellow sea, which churned over vast areas of the Rhine valley...
Smithsonian Program. Study of the ultraviolet rays in sunlight; of the sea's water, waves, currents, tides and the sea's relationships to men, animals and plants; of the 600,000 odd kinds of insect that compete with man for existence on the earth; expansion of plant studies in South America (for drugs, gums, oils, spices, fibres, fruits and dyes)?that, broadly speaking, would be the program of the Smithsonian Institution this year?Austin H. Clark, Washington...
...Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea...
That live in this beautiful sea; Nets of silver and gold have...