Science: Brutes & Scholars

From South Africa's Transvaal Museum, Dr. Robert Broom brought the skull of the new species of Australopithecus Transvaalensis Broom which he obtained last year after a blast in a South African limestone quarry. From Minnesota, Dr. Ernest Albert Jenks brought the mashed skeleton of "Brown's Valley Man," which he found in a gravel pit three years ago, believes is 12,000 years old. From Java, home of famed Pithecanthropus erectus, Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald brought replicas of eleven skulls lately found, relics of a hitherto un known tribe which inhabited the island...

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