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IN the course of the current month, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, will issue invitations to an international symposium on early man and the origins of the human race which is to be held in Philadelphia on March 18-20. This symposium will form part of the proceedings celebrating the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Academy. Among those who have already promised to contribute to the symposium are Dr. P. Teilhard de Char din of China, Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald of Java, Dr. R. Broom of South Africa, Miss D. A. E. Garrod of Great Britain, and Dr. Kaj Birket-Smith of Denmark. The arrangement of the programme is in the hands of a committee which includes Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., Dr. Edwin C. Conklin, vice-president of the Academy and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr. George G. Mac-Curdy, director of the American School of Prehistoric Research, Dr. Hellonut de Terra of the Carnegie Institution and Dr. E. B. Howard, acting curator of the Academy's Department of Geology and Palaeontology, who will act as secretary of the Committee. An attraction additional to the original papers which will be presented at the symposium is a “Hall of Prehistory” in which will be represented all the fossil remains of early man and his weapons and tools, as well as replicas of the principal sites of discovery. Among the exhibits for which arrangements have already been made is a cast of Homo Modjokertensis, the recent discovery from Java, which has been claimed to be “the earliest datable human fossil”. This will be exhibited by Dr. von Koenigswald. Dr. E. B. Howard will be responsible for a reproduction of the site of Folsom man at Clovis, New Mexico, and casts of the recently Discovered relics of Peking man will be shown by Dr. Teilhard de Char din.
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Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Nature 139, 103–104 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139103c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139103c0