Summer is expedition time for scientists. They have catalogued and put away in glass cases their last year's finds. They have written their reports and monographs, given their lectures, attended to home duties, and the irresistible itch to fare forth exploring, examining, collecting is upon them again.
The Smithsonian Institution of Washington, greatest of all expedition-senders, has announced many new projects, five being of prime interest:
Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka is off to search the shores of Kotzebue and Norton Sounds, Alaska, for traces of battlegrounds storied in Eskimo legend, where Asian ancestors of the Indians...