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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17809, 7 July 1923, Page 6

: A French scientist finds in the great i depths of the Arctic Ocean an argu- | ment tending to shorr that the earth ; i 5 slightly top-shat»ed, the protuberance I corresponding to the point of the top being at the South Pole. This, he j thinks, would explain the different results arrived at by the various measure- : ments of astronomers and geodesista (says the "New York Herald"). The differences are very small in comparison with the entire bulk of the globe, jet they are readily appreciable, and , one of the explanations that has been ; suggested for them is that the earth is tetrahedral in form. But the Frenchman thinks the top-shape theory i 3 preferable. The fact that to an ere looking at the earth from a point "in space it would not sensibly differ ia appearance from a true sphere, shows how refined are the methods of science Tvhich enable men living on the surface of the globe to detect variations in its general contour.