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IN celebration of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, an international symposium on early man was held at the Academy on March 17-20, when a number of representative archaeologists from all parts of the world were present. In addition to the introductory address by Dr. John C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and chairman of the committee for the symposium, thirty-two communications were presented, and four round-table discussions on problems of chronology and distribution took place. Broadly, the programme was arranged so that the communications presented on each day dealt with the problems of a continental area: on March 17 communications dealing with Europe or bearing on general problems of correlation with European cultures, on March 18 communications concerned with America, on March 19 matters relating to Asai and the Pacific and general problems arising out of the evidence therefrom, and on the closing day a small group of miscellaneous communications. The proceedings closed with a review of the problem of early man, based on the communications presented at the symposium, by Dr. G. Grant McCurdy.
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Distribution and Characteristics of Early Man. Nature 139, 723–724 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139723a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139723a0