The Washington times., 1922-04-26
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UP MOLARS Of
ANCIENT BEAST
Discovered in Nebraska and
Barely Misses Being Named
After Bryan.
BY JOHN GOLDSTROM.
Universal Service.


The tooth OF a primate not quite
like a man and not quite like
monkey has been found in western
Nebraska, it was announced yester.
day before the National Academy OF
Sciences by DIR. III. +. Osborn, paleon.
tologist of the American Museum OF
Natural History.
Scientists are a conservative lot.
and DIR. Osborn did not say outright
that this old timer may prove to he
Darwin's missing link, but he did
say that the museum had overcome a
powerful impulse to call 1t Bryan.
iensis, after Nebraskas's foremost
primate.'
80 we called 1t Haroldcookceii.
after DIR. Harold Cooke, who dis
covered It," Continued DR.. Osborn.
Five hundred scientist in conven-
ton at the National Museum roared
with unholy glee for several minutes
after the the announcement WAS
made. 1t was declared to be the
most important announcement OF
the convention.
DIR. Osborn said that 4 primate
had been reconstructed from the
molar excatated an Nebraska. II Is
accepted In the science OF paleonto-
logy that an entire mammal can lie
rebuilt from one of It's bones.
DIR. Osborn is the author OF THE
Evolution of Teeth" and is a world
authority on prehistoric dentistry.
"Mr. Bryan said that the scien.
lists couldn't make n monkey out of
him, but we may succeed in making
one out of this earlier Nebraskan.
said another paleontoligist as he lett
the convention hall.
Some Of the other interesting
phenomena brought out at todays
sessions of the convention were
these:
California is moving northward
at the rate of a foot pr two n
year. The Great Lakes are fitting
westward toward Chicago and
eventually will be in the Gulf OF
Mexico. Atoms sometimes have
warts on them, In the form OF
electrons. Africa and South Amer.
lea are moving farther apart.
And don't put your ovcrcoat
away Just yet. The sun Will cool
off in about 100000 years. in the
opinion of DIR. C. G.. Abbott, home
secretary of the academy, based
on a paper by DR.. G.. l.. Wendt
on the thermal decomposition Of
metals.
DIR. A. l.. Day, OF Carnegie In
stitution, said that observations at
Mt. Wilson and elsewhere proved
that there was a "crustal creep"
In California OF from one to two
feet. Observations are bong con-
tinued with a view to finding the
weak zones in such creeps, which
cause earthquakes like that in san
Francisco.
DR.. J. +. Hayford. of Northwest.
ern University. said that the Great
Lakes are fitting westward toward
Chicago and that eventually they
Will pour down the rivers into the
Gulf Of Mexico. Even in calm
weather the surface OF the lakes
10 not level, and winds cause them
to TIT leeward and windward
Or. II. A. Brewer said that
Africa and South America used to
be closer together than they are
now, and he cited his geological
observations to the effect that
rocks of Brazil and South Africa
have much in common.
DIR. E. II. Hall defended the COM
plexion OF the atom. He did not
entirely agree with the hypothesis
of an earlier physicist that atoms
under certain conditions have cleo
irons protruding from them like
warts.
Saber-tooth tigers and other pre-.
historic monsters used to roam
around the region where Holly
wood now is, according to DIR. ].
c. Merriam, president of Carnegie
Institution. He described the re-
mains of animals found imbeddod
In the ancient asphalt beds IN Los
Angeles, on the former Rancho La
Brea.
The sketch Of a prehistoric camel
that had walked a mile before the
asphalt beds dragged him down
was shown. All sorts of queer ami
mails and birds had roamed the re.
gion of the La Brea Rancho, where
Charlie Chaplin's studio is now.
DR.. +. 3. Jewett, of the Western
Electric Company, gave an exhibit
ton of the amplifying telephone.
One of his assistants in New York
spoke to the audience and another
played a violin, both clearly heard
in the auditorium.
DR.. r. A. Millikan, of Pasadena,
Cal, In a paper on the origin OF
penetrating radiations OF the upper
air. announced that in experiments
at Kelly Field, Tex, he had sent
up a sounding balloon to the high.
ever reached by science, sc miles.
or nearly $4,000 feet.