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Travel is pretty expensive these days, and times are getting so that even when a person is dead he can't be assured that he will get any concessions from the steamship companies. A shipment of Yucatan Indians, bound for Cambridge, were forced to discard their personal identity before they could even get half-fare tickets...
...Peabody Museum is awaiting the arrival tomorrow of 100 skeletons, shipped from Merida, the capital city of Yucatan, by permission of the Mexican Government, in the interests of a study of race mixtures being conducted by the authropology department of the Museum...
...investigations of racial types and mixtures in Yucatan is part of an extensive survey being made by the anthropology department in North Africa, Central America, and Mexico. Dr. Williams' recent investigations were made in the neighborhood of the ancient city of Chichen-Itza, which is being reconstructed by the Carnegie Institution...
...Yucatan, the district court took action against Edward H. Thomson, for many years U. S. consul at Merida, who lately returned to the Peabody Museum (Boston) with, a vast collection of Mayan artifacts taken from the sacred well at Chichen Itza (TIME...
...United States by Caroline Day, who for the past nine months has been gathering genealogies, photographs, measurements and sociological data on more than 300 families; the study of Finns, Armenians and Syrians in Eastern Massachusetts by Martin Luther; and the study of Indians, Whites and "Crosses" in Yucatan, begun this month by Dr. and Mrs. G. D. Williams '20, and carried on with the cooperation of the Carnegie institution. Dr. and Mrs. Williams are gathering data on the entire population of three Yucatan village communities...