American Geochemists Think
Red Scientists Outdistanced
By VERN HAUGLAND
WASHINGTON — (IP) —
Russia got the jump on the
world 17 years ago in the im
portant new science of geo
chemical prospecting, but
American geochemists think
they may have caught up with
or even outdistanced the So
viet scientists in giving the
pick-and-shovel prospector a
new tool—the chemical kit.
They can’t be sure, because Rus
sia clamped a secrecy lid on geo
chemical research a year ago.
Since January 1948 no new re
ports on Soviet work of this type
have been available.
It’s all very important from a
security standpoint because the na
tion that maps its hidden ore de
posits the most thoroughly is in
the best position to use those re
sources in time of war.
The U. S. Geological Survey has
made public the translations of six
Russian papers on geochemical re
search. The most important article,
by Soviet geologist E. A. Serg
eev, summarizes Russia’s work up
to 1940 in soil analysis as a method
of prospecting for mineral ores.
Says youthful, curly-haired Her
bert E. Hawkes, director of the
Geological Survey’s two-and-a-half-
year-old project for geochemical
research:
“Our program got under way in
1946. In addition to
work, we started digging through
all the obscure little journals in
government libraries, looking for
papers on what other countries
weer doing about soil-analysis
prospecting. We found to our com
plete amazement that the Rus
sians were 14 years ahead of us.
They had started the work in
1932.”
Some phases of prospecting re
search were under way in other
countries, Hawkes says. Sweden,
for example, was making progress
on the chemical analysis of vege
tation as a clue to the soil’s com
position.
But most' of the reporting on
the subject was by the Russians.
Hawkes himself had to learn to
read Russian in order to trans
late the articles and to check the
accuracy of translations by oth
er persons.
Hawkes says at least three com
mercial companies in the United
States already are experimenting
in geochemical prospecting. The
Geological Survey project, he adds,
is “barely reaching the stage
where we are ready to give it a
whirl in the field.”
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-HORSLEY ELECTED
Wendell G. Horsley, son of Wen
dell R. Horsley, director of grad
uate placements and personnel re
lations, was elected this week as
secretary of the Sigma Alpha Ep
silon fraternity chapter at the
laboratory University of Denver.
Mathews Receives
Bachelor Degree
Ward 0. Mathews of College
Station has been awarded a Bach
elor of Laws degree from Stan
ford University according to the
director of information at Stan
ford.
Mathews was one of 346 who
graduated at the end of the autumn
quarter. Graduates will receive
their diplomas in June at the reg
ular exercises.
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A nation-wide system of region
al scholarships in the Harvard
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ed by Dean Donald K. David of
Harvard University.
Purpose of the scholarships is
to insure “that well-qualified stu
dents without sufficient financial
resources will be able to continue
their education in the graduate
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Five scholarships have been an
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Under the Regional Scholarship
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the award to each scholar will de
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LONDON — (IP) — If you
have $25,000—or anyTeason-
able part thereof — to spend
on a legend, here’s your
chance.
It’s a good legend. It has been
circulating around the civilized
world ever since Plato gave it
playing time on his ancient Greek
conversational circuit.
More than 6,000 books in 17 lan
guages are in print on the subject.
Artists have a picnic with the fan
tastic forms it conjures up.
It is, in brief, the legend of lost
Atlantis.
People who believe in it—they
call themselves Atlantologists—say
it was a continent about the size
and shape of Australia. It was sup
posed to have been inhabited by
a partly civilized race. Something
cosmic happened —■ the Biblical
flood is the best guess. About
9,600 B.C. Atlantis disappeared.
From there on you pays your mon
ey and you takes your choice.
Which brings us to Egerton
Sykes of London. Mr. Sykes would
like you to choose him. He says
he is going to the United States
next spring in an attempt to raise
$25,000 for a new search for At
lantis.
Sykes is a tall, loose-framed,
middle-aged Englishman with a
ready smile and a 25-year-old
yearning. He used to be in the
British diplomatic service. But
his heart is under the sea.
That’s where he thinks Atlantis
is. He has collected 1,400 books on
the subject, organized a society of
fellow believers and publishes a
bi-monthly magazine devoted to
the legend. His own qualifications
give him membership in the Royal
Geological Society. And although
the Society will not sponsor an At
lantis hunt, Sykes says he is confi
dent that if he can make the search
he will have “their silent blessing.”
He belongs to the school that
believes Atlantis was located in the
Atlantic Ocean about midway be
tween the Straits of Gibraltar and
the American continent.
The members of the Sykes School
also believe that Atlantis did not
disappear altogether in the great
deluge. The Azores, he thinks, are
what’s left of the lost continent.
First, get Syke’s picture of that
part of the ocean:
The Azores are a mountain top.
The mountain slopes downward
beneath the sea to the ocean floor.
This floor was once the plains of
Atlantis. Now it is covered with
a thick layer of mud, the accumu
lation of thousands of years. Any
thing that might have survived
there is now buried so deeply it
cannot be recovered.
But the sides of the mountain,
Sykes explains, should have kept
comparatively free of mud. So he
hopes to find on this slope the
remains of some pre-historic
town or temple. He figures that
if he goes about 15 miles off the
east coast of the Azores and
down about a mile below sea
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Owen, with other graduate fel
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based at Texas A&I for more than
a week. The groiip also will visit
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level, he should reach the moun
tain side. If the original Atlan-
teans, as he contends, were sun
worshippers, then they should
haye built their temples on the
eastside of the mountain.
Sykes plans to do his hunting
with a camera. He would just let
down photographic equipment,
snap a few views and repeat at
intervals. He figures he would
need only the help of Mrs. Sykes,
a photographer, an engineer, an
archaeologist and a Portuguese
liaison professor.
“I don’t think it would even be
worth while wasting time asking
the British government at a time
like this to let us exchange our
pounds for hard currency to carry
out our project,” Mr. Sykes said
ruefully. But American dollars
will buy plenty of escudos. And
the way to get dollars, Mr. Sykes
is firmly convinced, is to give a
series of lectures in the United
States.
Marsh Resigns
Job With D.H.
Department
D. C. Marsh, dairy husbandry
instructor, resigned his position
with the Dairy Husbandry Depart
ment February 1 to begin opera
tion of his dairy farm in the Dal-
las-Fort Worth area.
Marsh entered A&M in 1938 ma
joring in dairy husbandry produc
tion and was a member of the A&M
Dairy Cattle Judging Team that
placed third in the intercollegiate
dairy cattle judging contest in the
National Dairy Show at San
Francisco in 1939.
He received his bachelor of
science degree here in dairy hus
bandry production in 1940 and a
master of science degree in 1947.
Marsh served five years in the
Air Force as a B-17 pilot in the
European Theater of Operations.
He returned to A&M as an instruc
tor in 1946, and has been in charge
of the breeding laboratory on the
dairy farm since September, 1947.
He has served as sponsor of the
Kream and Kow Klub and has car
ried on activities to promote the
work and interest of the club.
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