Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-30
FOSSIL S FOUND IN ALASKA SHOW )
NATIVES WERE OF ASIATIC ORIGIN
Dead Villages Indicate Rich
Old Culture, Declares Dr..
AIeS HrdIiCka.
Immortality of Soul Must Be
Fact, Says Another Sci
entific Speaker.
6y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILA December 30
Fossil ivory and other objects with In.
dications OF Asiatic conditions, recent
ly discovered in Alaska, were de-
scribed today by DR. Ales Hrdlicka, in
a paper prepared for the American
Association for the Advancement or
Science. The objects showed evidences
of a rema rkable and rich old culture.
Under the auspices of the SmltnSo-
MAN Institution DR.. Hrdllcka mace
four-month trip to Alaska and islands
of the Boring Sea. One object was the
tracing of all possible clues as to
mans antiquity and his migrations.
About 900 miles of the Yukon, from
Tanana downward, and the princlpai
Boring Sea Islands and the seacoasts
from Nome to Point Barrow were eX-
plored.
Results of Research.
"rhe results" said the doctor, were
the location of scores of dead villages
with some older sites along both the
Yukon and the coasts, the finding OF
hitherto unknown stone industry on
the lower central Yukon, the gather
ing of many old Astrological objects,
particularly of fossil ivory, Whlch
show collectively a remarkable ana
rich old culture, with indications OF
connections on one side deep into
Asia and on the other with that Of
the American northwest coast, ana
the collection of over 900 crania with
a large series Of fairly complete skele-
tons, representing most of the more
important Subdivisions OF the 1 ukon
and the coasts
The new president of the assocla-
ton elected today is A. A. Noyes OF
the California Institute of Technology.
Vice presidents elected are:
Mathematics, Durham jackson, Uni
versity Of Minnesota; physics, A. III.
Compton, University of Chicago; chem
istry, Roger Adams, University of
Illinois: astronomy, w. S. Adams,
Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena,
Calf; geology and geography, Charles
Schuchert. Yale University; zoology,
C. E. McClung, University Of Pennsyi-
vania: botany, William Crocker,
Thompson Institution for Plant Re
search, Yonkers, n. Y; anthropology,
r. ]. Terry, Washington University;
psychology, Knight Dunlap, Johns
Hopkins University: social and eco
nomic science, w. S. feathers. Van
derbilt University; history and philos-
ophy, Harry Elmer Barnes, Smith Col
lege: engineering, A. N. Talbot, Uni
versity of Illinois; medicine, G.. Candy
Robinson, Medical School of Wander
bilt University; agriculture, l.. S. Call,
Kansas State Agricultural College,
Manhattan, Kans., and education, A.
T. Gates, Teachers College, Columbia
University.
A lifetime spent in studying astrono-
my and allied sciences has led DR..
Heber d. Curtis, director of the Allie
gheny Observatory, to believe that
the human soul exists after death.
= In addressing the scientists on the
Unity of the Universe" he showed
how the same elements composed the
earth and the most distant stars, how
electrical action appears to be the
same on earth as on the dimmeSt
star and how physical and chemical
processes seem to be the same
throughout the universe and time, and
he added:
Element of Mind Stressed.
81 personally find it impossible to
regard handel's Largo" Keats lode
to a Grecian Urn" and the higher
ethics as mere by-products of the
chemical interaction of a collection
of hydrocarbon molecules. With
energy, matter. space and time CON
tinuous, with nothing lost or wasted
are we ourselves the only manifesto
ton that comes to an end, ceases, is
annihilated at three-score years and
ten?
What we crudely call the spirit
of man makes new compounds, plays
with the laws of chemical action
guides the forces of the atom, changes