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...long been probing the great dinosaur graveyard in the desolate badlands near Jensen, Utah. Having sent an abundance of bones back to Pittsburgh, the Carnegie men left the skeleton partly exposed for tourists to gape at, other diggers to retrieve. In due time a party from Washington's Smithsonian Institution arrived, began busily to exhume the remains. They quickly discovered that the neck vertebrae were missing. When high & low search failed to disclose them, it was decided to remove the neck from another dinosaur which lay nearby and which seemed to be of the same species. The neck...
Next on the site was a group of scientists from the University of Utah. They set about disinterring the second skeleton, found that the neck was missing. Investigation revealed that the Smithsonian Institution had the neck. The harassed Utah diggers then discovered that their skeleton also lacked a tail. Investigation revealed that the tail had been encountered some yards away from the body by the original Carnegie party, had been sent back to Pittsburgh...
Such was the Folsom situation when Major Roy Gregg Coffin of Colorado Agricultural College and his brother made a find in a dry arroyo that brought Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts on the run from the Smithsonian Institution. Beneath 20 feet of ancient soil, Dr. Roberts laid bare what must have been a teeming Ice Age campsite and tool factory. Besides 30 Folsom points of jasper, chert and chalcedony, there was a scattered armamentarium of scrapers, knives, drills, engraving implements, hammers. Extending over a half-mile, the site was apparently once a lush pasture where Pleistocene animals, following the retreating...
...cooker" developed by Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, famed authority on solar radiation. Dr. Abbot's best previous sun cooker, with which he and Mrs. Abbot once cooked all their food for three months, attained temperatures as high as 365° F. The new one, which has double vacuum jackets on the oil pipes where the sun's rays are focussed, gets...
...this should have been investigated last week by the Ecuadorean Government, but Galapagos seemed too far away. Meanwhile yet another Galapagos expedition prepared to sail last week from Los Angeles. Its chief was Dr. Waldo Schmitt, curator of marine invertebrates at the Smithsonian Institution. Tiny crabs, polyps and miniscule sponges are Dr. Schmitt's specialty but he bravely promised to do his best as detective as well...