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...years ago it was generally believed that this migration occurred very late in the Stone Age, only 4,000 or 5,000 years ago, perhaps even later. Claims of greater antiquity were inexorably demolished, and largely through the efforts of one man-famed, Bohemian-born Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution...
Observatory mathematicians today brought support to the statistics by which Charles G. Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., believes he has shown that there are important periodic changes in the sun's radiation, predictably affecting the earth's weather...
Critics have charged that the Smithsonian findings of solar periods were the results of either statistical errors in analyzing the figure tables, or of systematic errors of observation. Theodore E. Sterne, lecturer on Astrophysics, today cleared the Smithsonian charts of charges of statistical error...
...hopping westward to the island of Umnak, Dr. Hrdlicka turned up another rich find of oblong, pre-Aleut skulls, which he sent home to the Smithsonian Institution. Last June he decided to dig for longheads on the Asiatic mainland, went to Irkutsk, Siberia, 1,200 miles from the coast. In a nearby burial ground, girdled by stony mountains, Soviet scientists unearthed a group of long-headed skulls, completely different from the round skulls of present-day Siberian natives. The skulls not only matched those found on the Aleutian Islands but they were dead ringers for Algonquin Indians. Not even expert...
...Luke Smith bustled out from nearby Chatham, bought it for $4. It was jet black and "smooth as velvet" on one side, heavily "thumb-marked" on the other. Soon he had a score of offers for it-$200 from the University of Toronto, lesser sums from the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Western Ontario in London. "Numerous private collectors have standing offers in for it," said Dr. Smith, "but only one man has come close." Speculator Smith decided his prize was worth $10 a pound, demanded $800 or more...