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College,Oxford, is a Visiting Professor
at the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton,New Jersey. Mr. Wade-Gery
arrived at the end of Septemberand will
remain until May. He will engageprincipally in researchin epigraphicalproblems.
Cholera and Archaeology
From a correspondentin Alexandria,
whose anonymity apparently should be
guarded, we learn that, as of October2,
"Wace has had to stop his Kom el Dik
dig as the area is inside an army camp
and until the cholera scare is over the
Egyptian army does not want to be contaminated ...
by civilians."
t George Grant MacCurdy
1863-1947
Dr. George Grant MacCurdy, Professor Emeritus o'f Anthropologyat Yale
University and former director of the
AmericanSchoolof PrehistoricResearch,
was struck by an automobilein Green
Brook Township, New Jersey, on Saturday, November15, 1947,and was taken
to MuhlenbergHospital,Plainfield,where
. he died that afternoon.
Stephens Plaque
John Lloyd Stephens, a native of
Shrewsbury,New Jersey, was a lawyer,
an insatiable traveler, a steamship promoter who established the first transatlantic service between New York and
Bremen, a railroad organizer whose
Panama Railroad Companybuilt the first
railroad acrossPanama, and the possessor
of a distinguishedsenseof humor.
The joyous narratives of his muleback
explorations,Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapasand Yucatan,published in three volumesin 1841,and Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, publishedin
1843,with drawings by Frederick Catherwood,introducedthe Maya monuments
to society,establishedStephens as one of
travel's most charming raconteurs, and
made him an archaeologicallegend. He
died in New York in 1852,and the place
of his tombwas forgotten.
In 1941, after a long search,Mr. Harvey E. Mole of the New JerseyHistorical
Societylocated the Stephensvault in the
Marble Cemetery,on Second street between First and Second avenues, New
York. On Thursday, October9, 1947,a
committeeheadedby Mr. Mole dedicated,
with appropriateceremony,the memorial
plaque pictured above; Ben Grauer of
National Broadcasting Company introduced Dr. A. Y. Kidder of the Carnegie
Institution,who delivered the dedicatory

Acme
Dr. A. V. Kidder and Mr. Ben Grauer
at the tomb of John Lloyd Stephens,
Maya explorer, October 9, 1947.
address, and the Reverend Roelif H.
Brooks, rector of St. Thomas's Episcopal
Church,who deliveredthe benediction.
Victor W. von Hagen's biography of
Stephens, Maya Explorer: John Lloyd
Stephensand the Lost Cities of Central
America and Yucatan,was publishedrecently by the University of Oklahoma
Press.

Froelich Gladstone Rainey, who recently assumedthe directorship of the
University Museum.

New Appointment
Froelich Gladstone Rainey was Wn
at Black River Falls, Wisconsin,on June
18, 1907. He spent most of his childhood
on his father's cattle ranch in eastern
Montana. Graduating from the University of Chicagowith a Ph.B.in Englishin
1929, he traveled around the world; he
spent the winter of 1929-30teachingEnglish in the PhilippineIslands, and in the
summerof 1930he was a student at the
American Schoolof PrehistoricResearch
in France.
From 1931 to 1935 he was at Yale
University, first as Assistantin Anthropology, then as Assistant Curator in
Anthropologyat the Peabody Museum;
during this period he also spent two
seasonsin archaeologicalresearchin the
West Indies and a summerteachingAnthropologyin the University of Puerto
Rico. He receivedthe degreeof Ph.D. in
Anthropologyfrom Yale in 1935.
From 1935 until the United States entered the war he conductedanthropological and archaeologicalexploration and
research in Alaska for the American
Museum of Natural History and the
University of Alaska. His scientific
publications during this period include
Puerto Rican Archaeology (1935), Archaeological Excavations on St. LawrenceIsland (1938),ArchaeologicalExcavationsin Haiti (1940- ), 'IpiutakCulture at Point Hope, Alaska,' American
Anthropologist(1941), and 'Native Economy and Survivalin ArcticAlaska,'Journal of Applied Ethnology (1941). The
final report of his researches at Point
Hope, Alaska, in the summersof 1939,
1940, and 1941, written in collaboration
with Dr. Helge Larsen of the Danish
NationalMuseum,was to be publishedby
the AmericanMuseumof Natural History
at the end of 1947.
In 1942,at the instigation of the National Research Council, he made an
archaeological reconnaissance of the
Alaska highway. From the fall of 1942
until early in 1944 he served with the
Board of EconomicWarfare, first in connectionwith a food-producingprogramin
the western Pacific,and later as director
of the Quinine Missionin Ecuador. He
then joined the State Department,and,
assigned to the staff of Ambassador
Murphy, at that time politicaladviser to
General Eisenhower, served successively
in England, France, and Germany. In
1946he returnedto Washington,wherehe
was in charge of inland transport affairs
in the Officeof Transport and CommunicationsPolicyof the State Department.
In 1935he married Penelope Lewis,of
New Haven, Connecticut.They have two
daughters,Penelope, 7 and Pamela, 4.

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