England's Intelligentsia

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Prof. G. Elliot Smith, distinguished anatomist and anthropologist of the University of London, traced in the relics found in TutankhAmen's tomb resemblances to cultural elements from remote races, affording proof of the widespread diffusion of early culture. Many of the same arts and crafts were found in the Egyptian delta as early as 3400 B. C. and in Polynesia.

Dr. Cyril Burt president of the psychology section, advanced the thesis that just as there is a certain minimum intelligence required for the successful performance of any occupation, so there may also be a maximum intelligence, beyond which waste arises in forcing too large a peg into too small a hole.

Sir Oliver Lodge speculated on what becomes of waste energy radiated from the sun and other stars. The earth gets less than one billionth part of the sun's heat. Is the remaining radiation absorbed by the universe? He suggested that this is a possible source of electron formation and the birth of new matter.