All Eyes for a Big Stone

Professor Leonide Kulik, Russian scientist who risked his life to look a little longer on a stone, last week "was rescued by the relief expedition sent into the tundra wilderness of Siberia to seek him. No marvel of jasper or onyx, this; it is a large rock with a fused crust, composed of iron and silicates. It is the largest meteorite ever found on the earth, and Prof. Kulik has been looking at it ever since last summer.

Twenty years ago a red blaze scarred the night, and eventually came reports that a great meteorite had fallen somewhere in Yenissey province, destroying a great expanse of forest. Several expeditions failed to find it, and then the World War put an end to them. Last year Professor Kulik penetrated the wilderness, found traces; and last summer at the head of another expedition he was successful.

In August every member of his party fell ill with scurvy. But he was not through looking. He sent his companions home and remained alone, all eyes. When as fall drew on he did not return, the Russian Academy of Science organized the relief expedition which now is bringing him back to civilization.