Evening star., 1943-09-06

ears get larger and his mouth wider
As far back rs 1897 he was con-
vinced by his observations of man.
kind over the centuries that another
great war was inevitable. He then
told an interviewer:
Loss Of life in itself is not the
worst feature of war as it is con-
Quoted today the loss of a
limb also is not so fearful. The
real calamities of war are destruc-
tion of sight and hearing, corrosion
of the lungs, shattering shocks to
the nervous system, deep neuras-
themes that are engendered through
overpowering strains
To these he added prolonged un-
dernourishment of children"
DR.. Hrdlicka was said to have
examined more American skeletal
material than any other person. In
1917 he examined 1000 living Amer
leans. students at Harvard. Yale
and Virginia Universities and Ten
nessee mountaineers to learn the
physical characteristics of ''old
Americans'-persons whose ances-
tors had been in this country for
at least three generations.
The great collection of skeletal
specimens in the National Museum
was accumulated and arranged
mainly through his efforts. Many
of his colleagues believed that the
classifying and describing Of this
material would be regarded as his
lasting contribution to science.
DR.. Hrdlicka had been associate
in anthropology of the Smithsonian
since his retirement last year as
curator of the division of physical
anthropology of the National Mu-
scum.
His great services to anthropo-
logical knowledge, not only in this
country but through the civilized
world, were recognized by the Royal
Anthropological Institute of Great
Britain, which in 1920 made him an
honorary fellow and in 1926 awarded
him its prized Huxley Memorial
Medals. The University of Prague
conferred on him the honorary de-
gree of doctor of science in 1922.
DR.. Hrdlicka was fellow of the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, and a men,
ber of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. the National
Academy of Sciences. the American
Philosophical Society, the Anthro-
biological Association, the Associa-
ton Of American Anatomists, the
Archaeological Institute of America,
the Washington Academy of Sci
ences of which he was president in
1929 and 1880 and the American
Anthropological Association. which
he also headed from 1924 to 1926.
DR.. Hrdlicka also wrote hundreds
of papers for scientific journals,
and in 1918 established the American
Journal of Physical Anthropology
and was it's editor from the start. He
liked to read Russian novels in the
original. He could read virtually all
European languages. He liked
Booth Harrington and Clarence
Burlington Kelland He deemed Kel-
III bttE WlGblSSG anu vi
American author"
In his youth he loved outdoor
sports and games. but in his later
years lived quietly with his second
wife. Mrs. Nina Hrdlicka, who sur
wives him. His first wife, Marie S.
Dieudonne, whom he met when she
attended class he taught at Eclec-
tic College, died in 1896.
Other survivors include three
brothers, Henry, Macmillan and
Joseph. all of New York; a nephew,
DR.. Joseph M. Zelenka. and a niece,
Mrs. George Palic, both of WASH
ington.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. Wednesday at the Lee funeral
home, Fourth street and Massachu-
setts avenue NE. Burial will be
private.