The Washington times., 1922-04-25
j, 8, BREEDING
RACE Of GIANTS,
SAYS SCIENTIST
Americans Are TalIest People
of Whom There Is Record,
HrdIicka Reveals.
by JOHN GOLDSTROM.
Universal News Service.

Universal News Service.
The United States is growing q
new race Of giants.
DR.. A. Hrdlicka, of the Smith
sonian Institution. late yesterday
old the National Academy of Sci
ences that Americans are the tallest
people of whom there Ia any present
record, and that their skulls are pro-
portionately large.
He reported this as "a part of the
results Of a careful study OF large
group of normal men and women
descending from families three to
eight generations born American.
"The stature averages feet 8h
inches in the men and nearly feet
inches in the women, which IL
we'll above the general mean in this
country and is higher than in any
large group of whites in Europe"
Army Biggest" In Europe.
Men Of the north Of Scotland, the
Irish and Norsemen are next in DIR.
Hrdlicka's tabulation. Army figures
during the war showed that the
mixed American army was the
tallest Of all those fighting TN
Europe.
Those who would bar immigration
altogether were dealt a nasty blow
by DR.. l.. o. Howard, chief ento-
mologist Of the Department Of Agri-
culture. who favored bringing into
the United States all the pests and
parasites that can be found in south
ern Europe and Japan.
But he meant bugs. He described
number of varieties which are
death to caterpillars and other IN
sects who do great damage in this
country to trees, crops, and plant
life generally.
DR.. II. f. Osborn. in a paper on
Recent Discoveries on the Antiquity
OF Man." referred to the finding OF
the Foxhall man" in England as a
discovery Of the highest Importance
in tracing back to the first man.
But" he said. "as an example of
the insularity Of our British brethren
in science, they do not recognize ne
ice age. or glacial period, as having
existed until it reached Great
Britain"
Common Cabbage Has Nerves.
The nervous breakdown of a cab
bage, due to hereditary diseases, was
Interestingly described by DR.. L. II.
Jones in a paper "Inquiring Into the
Nature of Disease Resistance or I'm
munity of Certain Kinds
DIR. d. II. Campbell. Of Leland
Stanford University. California, said
that at once time Australia was con-
nected with the mainland of South
America. He spoke on Australian
flora.
A delightfully."- informal talk on
"Mitochondrial Bodies in the Sper-
matogenesis of Chorthippus Cur
tipennis" was given by DIR. L. l..
Mark.
Scarcely less Illuminating was DR..
A. +. Blakeslee's paper on "Vegeta-
tive Types in Datura Due to Somatic
Number Of Chrimosones."
DR.. Simon Flexner reported on e1-
periments In epidomiology on q COM
munity of mice suffering from ty-
phoid fever.
DR.. w. S. Halsted delivered one of
the most important papers OF the ses-
sion on Repatriation of Entire
Limbs Without Suture or Blood Yes
sels," showing how the hind legs Of
dogs had been successfully cut off
and put back on again.
Nasty Dig at Old-Timers.
DR.. a. Clark's paper on Animal
Evolution" was followed by DIR. F..
NJ. Chapman's on 1.-THE Distribution
of Motmots of the Genus Momotus.
DIR. c. G.. Abbot, assistant secre-
tary of the Smithsonian, summing
up results Of his twenty years
study Of solar radiation, said that
''if the sun varied as much as the
other stars we should alternately
freeze and fry"
He took dirty dig at the old
timers who say we don't have the
winters We used to by saying that
the suns heart had not varied more
than 6 per cent in the last twenty
wears.