Science: Diggers

Little bands of men roaming over the earth, poking in pits, caves, quarries, mounds, buttes for vestiges of the creatures that roamed the earth before them. . . Bigger bands of men examining maps, bringing steam shovels, excavating a tooth, a bracelet, a whole dead civilization , . . Millions of dollars spent in digging every year . . . Following are significant efforts and exhumations of the past two months.

The Orient was not, until last week, particularly fruitful. The broils of bellicose Chinamen disrupted Digger Roy Chapman Andrews' plans for...

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