Theos-Talk Archives (July 2003 Message tt00035)

Dallas, an email from a representative of National Geographic 
advised that the society generally does not initiate investigations, 
but that their Committee for research and exploration considers 
proposals from scientists who do; and that if they feel that the 
proposal has merit, the Committee then offers a grant to help the 
scientists with their research work. Apparently they often publish 
articles on the research work that they support. I was told that 
they would be happy to consider a proposal for an investigation 
into this, and that information on their program of research 
support is available on their website at:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/research/grant/rg1.html.

I personally am in no position to do any investigating, but would 
like to see somebody verify some or all of the various leads, and 
then (possibly?) publish an article about that topic in, for 
example, the National Geographic. Would somebody reading 
this have some interest along those lines, even as much as to 
check out and report on:

<<1 at the archives of the Geology Dept. University of 
California in San Francisco and

2 at the archives of the Dept. of Geology in Washington D C 
[also LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ]>>

I wonder if anybody who is living or visiting in those areas might 
have some interest in looking up whatever records and photos 
that might still remain in those archives?

Of course one might presume (?) that there may be a number of 
mainstream athropologists and archeologists who might not take 
kindly to having their current belief-structures and theories 
investigated and questioned, so I suspect that any investigation 
along those lines would necessarily have to be rather clandestine, 
tactful, sophisticated, etc, for it to get anywhere at all, if during 
those investigations one might expect helpful cooperation from 
those who might be somewhat constrained by a rather 
mainstream, or average, world view, at least with respect to 
archeology/anthropology and related sciences.

Speculatively,
Mauri