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Boston Museum of 
Fine Arts by Mail. 
This striking Greek Bronze 
Horse with gold plate and 
antique finish (Height 2 Vi") 
is just one of many beautiful 
reproductions from the 
collections of 
the renowned 
Boston Museum 
of Fine Arts. 
Available 
September 1 
through a new 
32 page color 
gift catalogue. 
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“DR.THO 
HEYERDAHL 
in search of man's 
beginnings... 
"Surpasses The Ra Expeditions or 
Kon-Tiki ."— Pubhshers Weekly. For 
five months famed researcher, sailor 
and explorer Thor Heyerdahl traced 
the trade routes that flounshed a 
thousand years before the birth of 
Christ, aboard a reed ship built after 
a pattern more than three millennia 
old. "Rewarding. . an eye-witness pas- 
sage into the dim past." 
—Kirkus Reviews 
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TIGRIS 
EXPEDITION 
More than 100 color 
photos, map, $17. 9S 
•IDOUBLEDAf 
Chlrna cf irregular i:: 
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Qryfih 
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iff obliquata. 
Paleontologist A. E. Trueman illustrated the supposedly inexorable 
evolution of oysters of the genus Gryphata from flat (a) to coiled (d) 
in this drawing from a 1922 issue of Geology Magazine. 
into the space between flat and coiled 
valve, the space that allowed the shell 
to open, after the animal’s death. 
If telegony and overcoiling are false 
“facts,” why did each command pres- 
tige and inspire no attempt at refutation 
for so long? I believe, first of all, that 
the reputation of false facts is bolstered 
by the naive belief that facts are bits of 
unsullied information extracted from 
nature by an objective process of pure 
observation or by scientific inference. 
Facts arise in contexts of expectation, 
and both the eye and the mind are noto- 
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