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THE War has forced the National Geographic Society to curtail its scientific field expeditions, but the archaeological studies that have been made annually since 1937–38 in southern Mexico under the sponsorship of the Society and the Smithsonian Institution will continue. The seventh expedition, headed by Dr. Matthew W. Stirling, is on its way to the southernmost Mexican State of Chiapas where, digging into huge burial mounds and clearing dense jungle growth, he will continue to reveal some of the secrets of pre-Columbian civilization in this hemisphere. Dr. Stirling is accompanied by his wife, Marion Stirling, who is also an archæologist, and Richard H. Stewart, staff photographer of the National Geographic Society. The expedition this year plans to conduct its studies in the mountains east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
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Archæological Expedition to Mexico. Nature 155, 449 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155449b0
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