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Almost every year for twelve years Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famed Bohemian-born anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, has conducted expeditions to Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to find traces of prehistoric migrations from Asia, has brought back carloads of material from hundreds of village sites. Far from digging at random in the hope of uncovering such a site, when he enters new terrain Dr. Hrdlicka can now spot one as far away as he can see. What makes this scientific detective work possible he last week explained in Science...
...museum during the past year has cooperated in research for the Bishop Museum of Hawaii; the Bureau of Science, Manila; the Catholic University of America; Depauw University; Estacion Experimental Agronomic, Cuba; the Field Museum of Natural History. Judson College, Rangoon, Burma; the New York Botanical Garden; the Smithsonian Institution; the University of California; the University of Michigan; The Yale School of Forestry; the Geological Survey of Brazil; and the American Museum of Natural History...
...find thus announced last week by Dr. Julian H. Steward of the Smithsonian Institution was made in a cave near Utah's Great Salt Lake. As the water level in the lake sank, millennium after millennium, the caves around it are supposed to have been eaten out by the action of waves at the shore. The cave which yielded up Dr.Steward's fossil infant is now 365 ft. above the lake level. Yet the fact that the skeleton was imbedded in lake gravel on the cave floor indicated that the cave was inhabited soon after the water retreated...
...rare minerals, auto-fagastite and bandylite, were discovered by a joint expedition of Harvard and Smithsonian Institution geologists and have just been added to the list of about 1200 rock components, it was announced here...
...year after he took charge, Dr. Mann talked Walter P. Chrysler out of enough money to send a Smithsonian-Chrysler expedition to Africa to get animals. In 1931 he again took his sloppy clothes and battered hat abroad, that time to British Guiana where he hacked into the interior and hacked out again with 400 excellent specimens. Today he has nearly 4,600 specimens in the 175 wooded acres of his zoo, rated one of the leading parks in the U. S., and within a fortnight he expects to have a 30% increase in his family. For last January peregrinating...