Evening star., 1938-12-30

with which the stones from the sky
are found at these depths in the
sample area, combined with geo.
logical data on the age of the soil
strata, served as basis for con-
sidering the rate of meteoric in
. crement for the earth as whole
Presumably the region investigated
lntensively does not differ materially
from any other similar extent on the
surface of the planet and over such
a period of century the falls may
d be considered as distributed about
> equally.
That particular region, he calcu-
lates, has gained at least 1850 tons
in the last century The United
States as whole is 145 PA tons and
. the world 9,535,477 tons heavier than
, in 1888. The rate of this gain in
weight, DR.. Mininger believes, is
fairly constant from year to year.
All the meteorites are either of iron
or of kinds of stone not found on
earth and are believed to be frag-
. ments Of an exploded star.
Z 1t is possible, astronomers at the
; meeting explained. that the solar
system now is passing through re-
= g1on OF space where the cosmic rocks
are particularly thick, but it has
been in the same region throughout
the time of man
Evangel!ne may have settled in
Virginia.
. When the Acadians were expelled
. from Nova Scotia by the English
it was revealed today by DR.. Robert
B. Bean of the University of Vir-
ginia. about 1000 of them were sent
. to the Old Dominion, where their
blood has mingled with that of some
Of the first families.
Although still on British soil, DR..
Bean explained, the exiled French
were allowed to remain so long as
they pledged loyalty to the govern
ment which many Of them, angered
by their treatment, would not. Most
Of the descendants of these Acadians,
he said in report on the basic
racial origins of the State, now are
scattered through the Tidewater
section.
= This Virginia basic stock, DR.. Beams
researches show, was far from the
pure Anglo-Saxon strain and con-
tained large contingents of French,
. German, Scotch, Irish and Welsh.
Besides the Acadian exiles there
were heavy Huguenot additions to
the Colonial population. There
were four Germans on the first boat
to reach jamestown and 1000 emf
grants from the Rhineland settled
in Virginia in 1707. StoneWall Jack
sons brigade in the Civil War, he
pointed out, was predominantly Ger
man.
The Old Virginians, DR.. Bean
finds, represented an essentially
s,brunet stock, lying somewhere be-
tween the Turks and the Bulgarians
in a color classification. In the
descendants of the Virginia families
light hair today is found in only
per cent of the men and II per
cent of the women. They constitute,
however, an essentially light-eyed
race-6l per cent of the men and
AZ per cent of the women falling
into this category.
There was, he explained, a world
radiation center for blond hair
around the shores of the Baltic.
The percentage in the general popu-
lation declines the further one goes
from this center. Red hair, he
found, is much more common
among Virginia women than among
the men and that it is most preva-
lent in the upper classes.
DR.. Bean also described moving
center of tallness in the United
States which started before the
Revolution just west of the Blue
Ridge Mountains. Early explorers
testify, he said, that the Indians in
this region were considerably taller
than those to the eastward. Later
it produced the tallest men In
the Revolutionary Army, Morgan's
Rangers. BY the time of the Civil
War the center had shifted west
ward to Kentucky, from which came
the tallest soldiers in either the
Union or Confederate Armies.
A half century later the tallest
soldiers in the World War came
from Missouri and Alabama, both
in the direct line of the radiation
of pioneers from the Blue Ridge
center.
X X X
A new tomato which may save
growers at least 100000 a year
was reported today by DR.. E. F.
Cuba of the Massachusetts, Agricul-
tural Experiment Station.
It has been produced, he re-
ported, by a series of crosses be-
tween varieties Of this vegetable