Show di dinosaur tracks found in virginia imprint imprints show animal had stride of 56 inches new york how dinosaur tracks track were found in virginia in a blab slab of red triassic bale shale taken from a farm in addle in loudoun county Is de scribed in a pamphlet just issued by the tho smithsonian institution on be the activities tivi ties of if its field geld workers in the tho last year the lab slab which was as obtained by Q a gilmore of the notional national museum and which if is now on exhibition at the museum shows that the animal had a stride of 60 56 inches mr gilmore alao also conducted excavation work in to the dinosaur national monument utah to obtain tor for exhibition in tho the museum a mountable skeleton ak eleton of one of the large dInoS dinosaurs aUrL the often fragile bonea bones of these gigantic reptile reptiles are found embedded in a thick sandstone of variable hardness hard nea that la is tilted up at an angle of CO 00 degrees and the work of quarrying them out without doing irreparable damage la Is described as a blow slow and tedious operation more than twenty fire ton tons of material were safely transported from which it Is certain that a good skeleton mount of diplodocus will be obtained measuring eight feet with a height of fourteen feet at the hips besides many localities in the united states says the pamphlet in telling of the field geld work the regions visited included the canadian Ito goddes ckles the Yang Tang tsze valley several islands of the west indies panama panamint and central america TA labrador brador and several countries in europe studies solar radiation dr C Q 0 abbot assistant secretary of the smithsonian institution gives a comprehensive survey of the work on solar radiation conducted since 1018 by the astrophysical observatory ej which he ito Is the director this work at tit first restricted to observations ions of the sun made la in the this summer and autumn seasons at the observing station at mount wilson Is tow conducted at two stations situated in two of the most cloudless regions of the world mount darque uala bala arizona and mount montezuma Monte xuma chile where observations are usually made five ave times dally throughout the year the mass man of data thus being accumulated will it Is hoped become the groundwork for study of the relation of the variation of the sun sua to the var variation laUon of the weather preliminary studies of which already have been made by M IL clayton while chief eather forecaster of the argentine meter service mr charles II 11 hoy who ho ha has con ducted biological expeditions for the tile smithsonian Smiths onlan for several 1 years la in australia and elM elile where tailed sailed for china at the beginning of the year to collect vertebrate vertebrates in the Yang tsie tsze valley mr hoy expedition wa was beset with of various kinds culminating in a real tragedy due to the unsettled condition of china great delay was encountered la in getting the outfit through the custom boue house in Shang shanghai bal ond and the prevalence alence of al most unchecked banditry made travel hazardous and uncertain after a few weeks successful collecting in the bochow district mr HOY left for a trip through hunan and klingst Kl angst sl in the course of which lie his series of acci dents began field worker die lie had a bad fill fall wrenching bli his back so 10 badly that he wai was unable to even crawl about for a week just ae as this condition was beginning to men mend d he ie accidentally hot shot himself in the leg eg and though unable to get about he wrote that be planned to end send his men out collecting Ho however weTer within a few day days a severe case of eatla net set in necessitating nn an operation from which mr hoy never recovered mr hoy in spite of his misfortunes hipped shipped considerable valuable material inn te rl at back to the institution for exhibition dr J walker eakes chief of the burdau of american ethnology smithsonian institution describes the reg of a preliminary of the archeological remains in south western florida the first region visited was that of the ten thousand islands which Is almost a virgin field for the arche olo glet and here were ere found many mounds and other traces of the prehistoric indian inhabitants there are few modern modem Settle settlements meats iv lit the region though one nae alli located at porpoise point consisting 0 of several houses and about fifty inhabitants life ufa Is very simple in this primitive settlement which la Is entirely out of 0 touch with the outside world the houses are mounted on pile plies like the ancient pile du dwellings ellings A promising series of preliminary il excavations was made on tte lNe edons island in tampa bay with such Interest interesting ln results bat that dr feakes decided to mate make it the site lie of more comprehensive investigations the largest mound in the cluster was probably that on velch the chief chiefs e house was erected and it la 19 claimed by dr IN bedon that de soto and narvaez first landed at this mound if so it can con be identified as the malnaa town acita dr fewkes ii Is at p present res in florida continuing and expanding his investigations of this archeo logically little known region |