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North America. In Alaska, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution scoured the shoreland and islands north to Point Barrow, then worked southward, following the Yukon to its mouth, in search of relics left by problematical Asiatic migrations to America. The anthropological world waited to hear if he could establish kinship between North American red Indians and identical human types visible today in northeastern Asia...
...Smithsonian-Chrysler. Dr. William M. Mann, bearded chieftain of the expedition to collect live animals for the National Zoo (Washington, D.C.) at the expense of Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, of Detroit, has kept faithfully in touch with the press from Darkest Africa. After many successful game drives, no small part of his labors have been providing cages and food for antelopes, birds, pythons, mongooses, monkeys, anteaters, hedgehogs, turtles, baboons. Lassoing gnus; dodging buffalos and night-prowling rhinos; cornering giraffes; distinguishing between hyenas and leopards in the dark, were occupations,, routine. "As I write," wrote Dr. Mann from Lake Manyara, "there...
...afield, natural-historical collectors last week reported captures. From East Africa, Dr. William M. Mann in command of the Smithsonian-Chrysler expedition to restock the National Zoo at Washington (TIME, Mar. 8), wrote that he had in custody a dik-dik-pigmy antelope, standing but 15 inches high. Also, a pigmy mouse-bumble-bee size. From Brazil, George K. Cherrie in command of the Field Museum's expedition (which includes Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton-TIME, July 5) announced that a wolf-spider had been taken, so enormous that it could capture and devour small birds...
...Laddie Boy's" statue was cast from contributions of members of the Roosevelt Newsboys' Association in every section of the country. Last week it was exhibited in Boston and will soon be placed in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington...
From Kansas, to Washington, D. C., to Philadelphia, for exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution at the Sesquicentennial, went two fish skeletons, one of twelve feet, the other of six. Six-foot was inside twelve-foot, evidently having served as a fatal meal one day seven or eight million years...