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...spoke Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution to predict that droughts on earth will cease with 1939's storms on the sun. Said he: "A double solar cycle of 46 years appears to be particularly important in precipitation. We seem justified in expecting a severe recurrence of droughts following the year...
...BIRTH OF CHINA-Herrlee Glessner Creel-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.75). History of Chinese civilization from 1,400 to 600 B.C., endorsed by the Smithsonian Institution's Carl Whiting Bishop as "the best, the most comprehensive, and the most pleasantly readable account yet published...
During the Chalk Age (60 to 150 million years ago) the air must have swarmed with all kinds of insects-but for some mysterious reason fossil evidence of Chalk Age bugs is rare almost to the point of nonexistence. Smithsonian Institution scientists were therefore delighted to receive last week two rare wing-prints lately found in 100,000,000-year-old Colorado sandstone, one of a giant leaf hopper, the other of something like a modern squash...
Turning to U. S. anthropology, Dr. Hooton pointed out that whereas Europe, Asia and Africa can point to human pre cursors hundreds of thousands of years old, a U. S. find which is alleged to be even 20,000 years old is a sensation, and doughty irreconcilables like the Smithsonian Institution's Ales Hrdlicka stand ready to assail with sledgehammer blows the validity of even that recent dating. "It is to the everlasting credit of professional American anthropology that it has not succumbed to the itch for ancestors by giving recognition to the many dubious and spurious finds whose...
...from the spectator's point of view, in true perspective. From front to back, a diorama's figures and objects diminish in size, merging imperceptibly with a curved, painted background. Diorama Corp. is proud of its historical and pictorial accuracy, has done much work for the Smithsonian Institution as well as for such firms as Ford and Sears Roebuck. Its President Edward Heckler Burdick conceived the idea of doing Christ in Gethsemane, to be followed by a half-dozen other Biblical scenes for possible exhibition at the New York World's Fair...