Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1929 — Page 17

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ANNUAL STATE HISTORY PARLEY SLATED IN CITY Four State, Fifty Regional Groups to Come Here Dec. 13-14. • Four state organizations and fifty regional and county historical societies will join in the eleventh annual Indiana history conference at the Claypool hotel Dec. 13 and 14. The conference first was held in 1919 in commemoration of the anniversary of the admission of Indiana into the union. The Society of Indiana Pioneers, the history and social science section of the Indiana State Teachers’ association, the Indiana Historical Society and the historical bureau are the four state organizations participating. _The annual luncheon Friday

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j noon. Dec. 13. held by the Indiana | Historical society, will open the conference and the Society of Indiana Pioneers will give the closing dinner Saturday night with Mrs. W. T. Laflerty of the University of Kentucky, speaking on “The Romance of the Ohio.” A public meeting Friday night will be addressed by Dr. Clark Wissler, curator of the American Museum of Natural History, of New York and professor of anthropology at Yale. He is author of “The American Indian” and other books and will speak on “The Antiquarian in Contemporary Life.” Ross F. Lockridge, author of “George Rogers Clark Pioneer Hero of the Old Northwest,” will speak on “La Salle.” The history and social science section of the state teachers’ association, meeting Saturday, will discuss the question of constitutional revision. Local and county organizations will hear Frank M. Setzler, Dr. Herbert A. Kellar of Chicago and Mrs. Emma S. Backus of Cincinnati. The ancient Greek philosophers held that the universe was composed of the four elements of earth, air, fire and water.

MUSEUM SCOUT IS MARCO POLO RIVAL

Brings Valuable Cargo of Specimens in Spite of Disease, Danger. Eu Science Service CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—A tale like that of modern Marco Polo, braving bandits, famine, and the perils of the wilderness to bring home to the west a cargo of the spoils of the East, is told by Herbert Stevens, of the Field Museum of Natural History, who just returned from China. However, his booty does not consist of jade and pearls, silks and spices, but of the skins and bones of birds and animals. It was to bring out these spoils of science that he traveled 1,700 miles through famine-stricken and thief-invested territory, going on foot, bn horseback, on muleback, on yakback. Stevens was leader of one division of the William V. Kelley— Roosevelt expedition of the Field museum, and his adventures are

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related by Director Stephen C. Simms of the museum. All the other divisions of the expedition have preceded him on the homeward trek, anc he was th sole white man left in charge of the great accumulations of biological specimens, with the task of getting them out intact. This he accomplished successfully, his joumeyings taking him through the little known interior provinces of Yunnan and Scechuan, and along the Tibetan border. Now, safely returned to the Field museum, Mr. Stevens is superintending the unpacking of his cases and bales. There are thousands of valuable specimens, many of them rare, some quite new to science. There are in the collection approximately 500 mammals, 1,100 birds, 500 reptiles and fishes, 5,000 butterflies, 2,000 moths, 500 beetles and bugs and 10,000 plant specimens. The word ventriloquist is derived from the Latin “ventor,” the belly, and "loquiL”tospeak.

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