Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1930, Page 29

PLUTO AND EARTH |1 [} X « 4 « NEARLY SANE S Carnegie Institution Exhibits Recent Scientific Findings in Paleontology. The planct, Pluto, ninth member of the solar system, discovered last year from the Lowell Observatory, is of ap- proximately the same size as the earth. The first determinations of the mass Wwere announced today by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. They were det-rmined by Dr. Seth B. Nicholson and Nicholas U. Mayell of the Mount ‘Wilson Observatory. The orbit of Neptune which, if the lanet were subject to no attraction rom other bodies, would be a perfect eclipse, shows certain slight irregular- ities due to the new ‘planet lying beyond it in space. The Carnegie investigators found that the observed motion of Nep- tune would be caused by a body of about the mass of the earth, a value subject to_an uncertainty of about 25 per cent. Photographs of Pluto and drawings showing the effect of this planet on the motion of Neptune will be on display &t the Carnegie Institution tomorrow and Sunday, both afternoon and evening. Ancient Land Bridge Studied. It also was announced today that Carnegie scientists have established the existence of an ancient land bridge be- tween North America and Asia by way of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Strait. This has long been suspected because of the similarity and plant and animal life on the two continents. The now barren island, about 40 miles from the Kamchatka peninsula and 100 miles from the coast of Alaska, once was covered by a great redwood forest, similar to that now in California. The ancient redwoods were identified by Dr. Ralph W. Chaney, Carnegie paleo- botanist. ‘in fossils brought off the island this summer by Dr. Henry B. Collins of the Smithsonian Institution. It is probable, according to Dr. Cha- mey, that 50,000,000 years ago the red- wood forest was continuous from Cali- fornia to Kamchatka and that St. Law- fence Island was part of an unbroken highway over which the first human settlers of North America may have Passed, together with many animals. Earth’s History Recorded. ‘The institution also is showing this gear, for the first time, some of the earliest pages of the earth’s history as recorded on rocks. These date from the pre-Cambrian period, probably a thou- sand million years ago, and have been altered by pressure and heat through the ages. They show tiny pits made by raindrops in the sediment from which they were formed, as well @8 cracks made by the sun. There is eonsiderable evidence of low orders of nhnt life, including seaweeds. There no trace, however, of even the lowest forms of animal life which might have been_expected to have been present in the beginning and to have fed on the sbundant plants. ‘This does not necessarily mean that there were noanimals, it is explained, but that such creatures as existed then had no shells, scales or skeletons which would make an impresison in the soft sediment. Also, it is pointed out, they may have been too small to have left Tecognizable traces or may have been 80 different from later animals that ml:o;na!oghu do not know what to or. The contested issue of the age of the human race in North America is re- vived by exhibits obtained this year from a cave in Nevada, where man- made implements were found in close association with bones of the ground sloth and other extinct animals. ‘Will See Life Process. Visitors to the exhibit this year will be able to see for the first time one of the fundamental life processes. Each living cell is a battery sending out elec- =—4711 Eau de Bats and » Cake $1.15 X. . of Seap in a bo —Mennen’s Set, talcum, s cream, hair dressing and tric currents, but-most cells are micro- scopic in size, so that it is impossible %0 _observe what happens. For this exhibit use is made of the eells of the water plant, valonia, which 4s about the size of a hen’s egg and | eonsists of a tough papery bag, the cell | ‘wall, inclosing a thin continuous film of , lasm Wi surrounds the “sap,” & solution of salts very different in com- | ition from the s sea water. Kora Kona, for— urrounding ich cells can be handled easily in an electric circuit. | GEORGETOWN U. IS HOST | TO COLLEGIATE PRESS Association Announces Annual Ses- | Y sion at Hilltop Tomorrow—Dr. Nevils to Extend Welcome. | Georgetown University will be host fomorrow to the District of Columbia Collegiate Press Association, which will bold its annual meeting this year at the Hilltop. Dr. W. Coleman Nevils, 8. J., president of Georgetown, will welcome the student editors at the opening meeting at 10:15 o'clock in the Hirst L The association embraces the student publications of George Washington Uni- | versity, American University, Catholic | y_College Maryland. editor-in-chief of who 15 president reside At a luncheon meeting, followed by neral_d. on of publishing probe f of the has observed col world hi will speak on “Changing Elements in Journalism.” The annual election of officers will be held. EMPLOYED TO BE ASKED FOR DAY’S PAY A MONTH Philadelphia Relief Chairman An- nounces Proposal in Behalf of Those Out of Work By the Assoc PHILADEI nation of one day’s pay a month for the next four months to aid the un- eriployed will be asked of wage earners of Philadelphia, Horatio Gates Lloyd, chairman of the Committee for Unem- pioyment Relief, announced yesterday. . Attorney Stricken Dead. NEW YORK, December 12 (#).— Louis W. 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