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...Herbert J. Spinden '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, has just returned from a three months' expedition in the Yucatan. With Mr. Gregory Mason. Dr. Spinden explored mush of the territory which was previously unknown to archaeologists, in an attempt to get nearer the long sought solution of the Mayan riddle...
What was already known of these people as well as the new facts revealed by the Mason-Spinden expedition are set forth in the following article which Dr. Mason has written for the New York Times...
...members of our expedition were not surprised to find that most of the buildings in the seven ruined cities we discovered were temples or edifices devoted to religious purposes. Under the latter heading, of course, would come tombs, observatories, monasteries and nunneries. One of the most interesting buildings Dr. Spinden and I found at Okop, a building that is now a mass of stone, 45 feet high 130 feet long and 110 feet wide--with most of its ceilings caved in--was perhaps of the latter category, for in some respects it suggests the "nunnery" at Chichen Itza...
Died. Commander Ogden T. McClurg, 47, wealthy head of A. C. McClurg & Co., publishers, navigator of the recent Mason-Spinden expedition into Yucatan (TIME, April 26, SCIENCE), Commodore of the Lincoln Park (Chicago) Yacht Club, member of other yacht clubs; in Chicago, of cerebral hemorrhage...
...Herbert J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum (Boston) and Gregory Mason, formerly on the editorial staff of the Outlook, cruised the Yucatan coast, putting ashore five times in six days to visit Mayan cities unknown to modern history-Xkaret, Paalmul. Chakalal, Actuo, Acomal. Four or five miles apart, they were each discoverable by a small temple seen from the sea, and might be approached in a launch by a creek or canal leading to a lake, lagoon or bay. These cities were on the trade route between northern Yucatan and Mayan centres in lower Central America, particularly Guatemala. Like...