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Members of the lordly National Academy of Sciences (membership limited to 300) and a few outsiders listened attentively last week from their comfortable leather chairs when old Dr. Boas stood up in the Academy's severe, oak-paneled lecture room to deliver what was probably his last public address as a practicing scientist. Next month Dr. Boas will retire from the faculty of Columbia University, which he joined 40 years...
...outlines of its prehistory. Ireland was not inhabited in Pleistocene times, as Britain and Europe were. Settlers arrived from Britain about 7000 B. C., bringing Stone Age implements some 10,000 of which the Harvardmen found. In geological strata of this period pollen grains of elm, alder, beech and oak and fossil shellfish reveal a warm climate. The Bronze Age began about 1800 B. C., the Iron Age not until 100 A. D. From then until the Anglo-Norman conquests (12th Century) the Irish lived in wicker huts, wooden houses or crannogs-lake dwellings. Still being explored is a royal...
...Governor Allred Convict Baker explained his nickname: "Wal, Guv'nor, when I first landed in de pen, I was chopping wood one day when we cut down an oak tree and a big limb hit me in de head. Dat limb broke, but I went right on workin'. So de boys call me Ironhead...
Those who were elected are: Robert Lyle Bishop of Manhasset, L. I., N. Y.; William Ames Coates of Quincy; Saul Gerald Cohen of Dorchester, Milton Elkin of Roxbury; Maurice Haskell Heins of Dorchester; Neil Gardiner Melone of Minneapolis; Howard Franklin Schomer of Oak Park, Illinois; and Robert James Stevenson of Washington...
Observations during this week have been requested of all the observatories with large instrumental equipment, but to date the only ones received have been three cabled from Copenhagen, one sent from Yerkes Observatory, and several made with the telescopes at the Oak Ridge Station...