Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appointed. Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, 55, famed scientist; to be Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington...
Abbott of Smithsonian...
...Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D. C., chose last week a new secretary (i.e., commander-in-chief), Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot. Technically, he is an astrophysicist. To a few laymen, he is known as the man who has spent his adulthood studying the sun. Why? Because he wishes to forecast weather, weeks or months in advance, by discovering what the gases around the sun have to do with its heat radiation; also to find some feasible means of harnessing the sun's energy in man-made machines...
Born in Wilton, N. H., in 1872, educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Abbot has been with the Smithsonian Institution since 1895. Able scientists who preceded Dr. Abbot as Secretary of the Smithsonian were: Joseph Henry, who like famed Faraday, worked in early electrical experiments; Spencer Fullerton Baird, naturalist; Samuel Pierpont Langley, father of aerodynamics, whom Dr. Abbot assisted in solar work; Charles Doolittle Walcott, geologist...
Anthropology & Medicine. Let doctors consult with anthropologists for light on human physical evolution, for data on human variation and for the furnishing of normal standards, said Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian institution. "The vast collection of both normal and pathological material in our Osteological, brain, and other collections is used nowhere near as much as it should be by the medical man and the surgeon. . . . [Physical anthropology shows for example] that the normal stature of an adult American male is not 5 feet 7½ inches, but anywhere between...