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cepe's Journey into Antarctic Nest
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NV NONks Dec. &ts-~eiNtecn eN-
pioration expeditions are now IN pro-
wrcaa or "a contemplation after four
years % Inactivity IN this line %
scientific research. due 20 the great
war Most % these enterprises have
been undertaken or projected since
the armislce and theg recall the fact
that Mother Larth still has important
biological geological. chronological and
msteorclogiral problems which are
SIN unaolvod
one of the most important ~ these
snterpriso8 Is the British Antarctic
Expedition. headed by Commander
John Lachian Cope. n. ri a. 81. for
merly az the British navy II Is
financed Tor t760.0 Includes Eve
ships. ia5 men. Several irplaues and
exteH siye wireless apparatus. The un-
acrtakinE d 20 require nve years and
is objects are the decentralization
a the Antarctic sea. a trip % tho
south Pole. the locating 81 new whni-
ms grounds. and the discovery % sup
posedly rich gold. silver. coal and
ruby fields
Captain ROAD Amundsen. who dis
covered the south Pole In 1911. left
Nome. Alaska. last August IN an at
tempt 90 reach the North Pole. Ills
ship. the Maud. had already spent 10
months IA tho Arctic. north ~ Asia
and Europe. and had successfully
rlade the N6rtheast Passage. lie ex1
pocted the Maud 20 bee locked in the
icepnek and 10 drift toward the Pole
when the Arctic winter ended. IN re-
eotlatinw his way 90 Nome he was Ere
uucualy compelled 10 blast PAIN
through the Ice. Captain Amundsen
Nan last heard ~ 0fl East Cape about
100 miles northwest 81 Nome in the
nerfuN Straits The explorer on ac-
count ~ high wages And scarcity Of
men. was handicapped by lack ~ help,
his only companions being three snail
ara ana an Eskimo cook.
The other interesting expeditions
projected or now under way are as
follows,
siberia Captain Aysi Landmark
and captain John Vatnsy. m a 60-foot
.powcr boat are on a s.o0e-miie voy-
age 10 he K0ivma river. using a pri-
mitfvo chart made rs ISIS by Norden-
skiold. swedish explorer on his
voyage from Norway a. Japan VIA
the Arctic Ocean.
tireenmnd-kmud Rasmussen. Dam
AN explorer. who returned from the
East coast late IN 1919. after studying
Eskimo tribes IL preparing Tor an-
ofher expe 1ition % i've years duFa-
tion. LANCE Koch. another Dane. la
planning d scientific ~ vsy az North
20 establish Danish soveseignty an
that territory,
Africa Four expeditions are n pro-
grcsa. namely. the Mackie Ethnologi-
"a Expedition 20 Central Africa for
che purpose 81 studying the anahima.
one - the caicf pastoral tribes II An
kole. 4 district west 20 Uganda the
British Natural History Museum ex-
pediJlpns 10 the Weat Coast and the
81 5. Maria mountains. the Duke 81 TIE
AbFuszis effort 60 hnd fhe sources %
the Webb sheboii river. which flows
from Abvssinla through italian som
aiiland into the Indian ocean and tae
chronological tour of the Belgian por-
ton ~ Tanranyika and the Eastern
Congo. b. ~ A. Barnes. who sx-
Stored the Ittsft and Srmliki forests
nndinn 4 strange rate 20 pygmy saw
ages a. well A. gathering a wonderful
collection 81 moths and butterflies.
HanIn Land-Dunaid y. MACMILLAN.
who vas Vlth pcarY plans 20 start
next year G. explore one 81 The rich-
est neids in tie Far North. lie cN-
poets q establish camp zoo miles
south or Utah ln Northwest Green
land. where his Cr3ckeT Land Expedi-
ton passed four winters he Will at
tempe 60 circumnavIsatc naffin Land
and penetrate $500 miles 90 its v est
ofn coast
Nova zemhla -pr Olaf Holteaahi II
Chrntlania University a organizing
Northwestern Natural Science and
Oenluglcal Expedition % this country
and pians % start neat summer.
Mexico Professor Emelio Oddoue
Il famous Neapolitan soismoioxist
representing the Italian government
h. now siudying the earthquake sits
uatinn in Mexico by means Of hls "in
eryiametcr.r an invention By which be
II able % measure both motion and
encrgy
The AmaEon-~E Exploration Of this
great river ~ - re undertaken next
year hy a large party ~ American
scientists. headed by Dr Henry h
Ruaby of Columbia University The
party expected 20 leave early in Janu
AIRY and al traverse more than 600
square miles 81 almost virgin land "a
tae upper reaches u the river basin
pr Raaby was Is ~ campanied Is
Dr David starr Jordan. president 81
Leland stanford University nr Gael
1T Eirenmann. ~ the University ~
Indiana. who were 90 study fish and
reptiles: Dr Ruthven 81 Che Unl.
versity ~ Michig8u to study frogs
and pr Edward Kromcrs University
- Wlscunin. and Professor a. q. IIn
Massachusetts Institute - Technula-
Ks. % investigate seed and volatile
oils.
Ecuador and peru-Coiisciioas Of
flora and fauna are now being gath.
cred for the American Museum -
Natural History IN New York by Cape
tain Harold ~ Antnouy and George
* Cherrle
Pacific Islands Solution ~ the ori
gin % the polynesinn race q one 81
the objects ~ a survey . the Pa
einc Islands planned al q recent con.
ference az scientists az Honolulu uu-
der the auspices * the Par Pacific