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Scientific expeditions to Ireland, Siam, the Cameroon, Venezuela, the Tibeto-Indian border, Ecuador, Arizona, and Florida, were sent out last year by the Peabody Museum, and progress of the field work was reported today by Donald Scott, Director of the Museum...
...cooperation with the government of Siam, a Harvard expedition has just completed a two year survey of economic, medical, and anthropological conditions of the rural areas. The ruins of one of the largest known Indian pueblo villages in the southwest are being investigated by the Arizona expedition with the hope of revealing many secrets of American Indian history in that region. The racial
...from lush Penang Island in the Straits Settlements last week climbed a four-motored Imperial Airways airplane. For some 650 miles it sped across the Gulf of Siam to Saigon in French Indo-China, then 350 miles on to Tourane, finally another 550 miles straight across the South China Sea to Hong Kong. Thus, in the first of six trial flights, Imperial Airways Ltd. sprouted a new branch from its main stem between London and Australia. Carrying passengers and mail, the new service will run twice a week, is significant because it brings the trans-Asian airline within 80 miles...
Australia, Eatonia, Siam, and Syria, among others, are represented in the University by students this year, according to figures compiled by Phillips Brooks House. Canada, with 29 students, has the honor of having the largest delegation, while England is matched by China for second place honors, each country sending...
Most Buddha relics are in Siam and in Japan's great shrine at Mt. Hiei. Buddhists attach no miracle-working powers to them. When Bishop Masuyama arrived in San Francisco on the Taiyo Maru, he and the precious bonelet were escorted by numerous Buddhists to their drab, unimposing Temple at Pine and Octavia Streets. All the Buddhists meditated quietly. Then the Bishop took Buddha's bone to his nearby home where, because of its great value, he planned to keep it until a suitable new temple might be built...