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...Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, last year circled the earth peering intently into the faces of the people he encountered, scrutinizing their hair, their ears and jaws, their chins and cheekbones. When he returned last fall he remarked upon the strangeness of seeing "red Indians" in Asia, Negritos (a Philippine and African type), in India, yellow-haired and bearded women among black Australian aborigines. He is "a great one for remembering faces," a greater one for understanding, classifying them...
...scarce or unknown in U. S. museums; just as James Simpson, president of Marshall Field & Co. (Chicago department store), was congratulating himself and being congratulated that the expedition he had financed was a complete success and a great contribution to natural science; just at this point, last week, the Smithsonian Institution made an announcement from Washington...
...Edward Francis Carry, President of the Pullman Co.; Charles Campbell, Deputy Minister of Mines for Canada; Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern Railroad; Stephen Tyng Mather, Director of the National Park Service; Hermon Carey Bumpus, American Museum of Natural History (1902-11); Charles Doolittle Waicott, President of the Smithsonian Institution; C. A. Fetterolf, International Mercantile Marine...
Would the American Museum find enough funds for 1926 to keep abreast of Washington's Smithsonian Institution and Chicago's Field Museum? The public hoped so, and scanning the museum's list of re-elections, guessed so. The list...
...Smithsonian Program. Study of the ultraviolet rays in sunlight; of the sea's water, waves, currents, tides and the sea's relationships to men, animals and plants; of the 600,000 odd kinds of insect that compete with man for existence on the earth; expansion of plant studies in South America (for drugs, gums, oils, spices, fibres, fruits and dyes)?that, broadly speaking, would be the program of the Smithsonian Institution this year?Austin H. Clark, Washington...