Science: Earth & Man

Regularly every Christmas-New Year week, at a time when school holidays release scholars for a brief period, the American Association for the Advancement of Science conducts a complex circus of 17 rings labeled from Anthropology to Zoology. Just as regularly at the end of each school year, at a time when scholars head for vacations. A.A.A.S. corrals as many as possible for a summer meeting. Then, however, A.A.A.S. wisely avoids a single big show, is content with one modest meeting somewhere east of the Rocky Mountains,...

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