The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-01

of American Museum of Natural His
tory-object Is to Secure Scientific
Data.
Prof. George X Cherrie of Newfane,
naturalist with the Roosevelt Brazilian
expedition, and DR.. Frank NJ. Chapman,
with the American Museum of Natural
History of New York, will sail from
New York Thursday ON the ChristobaI
of the Panama line. He left Brattleboro
last evening for that city.
The expedition is for the purpose.
as Prof. Cherrie expresses it, of making
a reconnaissance of different parts OF
the Andes mountain ranges with a
view to determining from the bird life
in the Andes which parts of the coun-
try are the oldest. 1t is hoped to de
termine this point partly from the fau-
ma. The work of this expedition will be
more to determine to which points it
might be the most profitable for the
museum to send expeditions later.
Prof. Cherrie and Prof. Chapman,
who will be the advance guard of an
expedition, will stop first at Panama
and then 90 to Guayaquil and by train
to Quito, the capital of Ecuador
They expect to ascend Chimbora 20,
one of the highest peaks of the Andes,
| in their study of bird life with the plan
to determine the character Of the fauna
| at different attitudes. They have no
! intention of attempting to scale the
lpeak to its summit, but will go as far
as they can if they find anything that
will aid them in their search for scien-
| tific data.
/ Upon their return to Guavaquil they
will go to Callao in Peru and from there
to Lima, the capital. From there they
expect to make many expeditions into
/ the mountains in the interior, using the
! capital city as a headquarters for THEN
work in this section.
They will be there two or three
weeks and then take steamer to Molten
| do, another port in Peru and 90 from
there by rail to Lake Titicaca in Boliv
ia, and to La PaZ, the capital city OF
that country. On the way to the Lake
a short stop probably will be made al
Arequipa, about half way up the
mountain, where travellers are accus
toned to spend a little time on thei
way to the lake to become accustomed
to the high altitude.
Lake Titicaca is the highest naviga
bic body of water in the world It /,
l.
miles long, and two steamers ply it
waters. One of these boats was takel
up on mule back before the railroa,
was put through. In order to get to tn
the lake the railroad goes over pas
that is $4,000 feet above sea level.
. Prof. Cherrie, who has been to tn
; lake before, SAYS that it is surrounde
by such high mountain peaks that tn
: sun does not get high enough to shin
/, on the lake before 9 and 10 clock /
the morning and that before then it
. bitterly cold. While the sun is higl
Z however, it is very hot
. From La PAY they viii 90. it is e,
. pected, to the southern part of Bolivi
I. and cross the eastern range of the Al
- DIES by pack train to Cochabamba.
!: 1t is probable that the party wi
|. split there and that Prof. Cherrie wi
go to Valparaiso, Chill, and from the1
= across the continent to Buenos Aire
Il From there he will 60 up the Rio de
s. Plata river to Paraguay and into sout1
- ern Brazil and then out to Rio Janeir
!. from which port he will sail for HON
, He will be gone from four to eigl
.. months.