The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-12-04
Great Expedition Win Explore Re-
mote Sections Of Asia for Most
Primitive Human Remains.
GREATEST EVER ORGANIZED.
China and Mongolia Expected to
Yield Up Treasures in AnthropoI-
ogy and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Superstition Big Drawback.

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New York-To search for the most
primitive human remains, the "miss-
ing link between man and the apes,
will be the object ofsa great expedi-
ti0n to be sent out by the American
Museum Of Natural History in coop
Grafton with the American Asiatic as
sociation and Asia Magazine. The ex-
pedition will be the greatest of its
kind which has ever been organized
by any institution in the world and
win work for five years with q large
party OF scientists IN various remote
regions Of central Asia. 1t will be IN
der the direction and leadership Of
Mr.. Roy Chapman Andrews, Associate
Curator Of Mammals In the American
Museum Of NaturdI History, who FOR
the last ten years has been carrying
on geological explorations in various
parts of the Far East. The expedition
WIN be financed BY fund Of S250,O0O,
which Is being provided by the Amer
lean Museum Of Natural History, the
American Asiatic association and Asia
Magazine, and the private subscrip-
lions al Mrs. Willard Straight. Messrs.
4 r. Morgan, George r Baker, childs
Trfck. ". A. Hartman anG ar. and
Mrs. Charles L. BernheiDier.
when In the year 1891. Dutcn
army surgeon. Eugene Dubois. While
excayatirig FOR fossils III central Java,
discovered near Trinil part Of skull,
two molar teeth and a thigh bone ne
had unearthed one OF the most per-
nIaxine conundrums In the study OF
human ancestry. Were the remains
,hose az an extremely early type OF
nrehuman manlike animal? II so.
fht;s apemun must have lived approx
s,yateIv f,ye hundred thousand years
go This momentous discovery. has
nean suuplemented by that of other In
dIsrutabIy human remains OF wn'cn
the most ancient, found IN souInern
Germany. Il the jaw OF the so-cai'ea
n.sdeIherr man who may be two nun
dred and fdfty thousand years old.
wsth the exception Of the Java spec
,n,en ali fossil human fragments nave
nesn' discovered in Europe Or England,
Msv.rtheless, the leadint scientisfs o.
~ dav believe that Asia was the early
800 - 81, ~ the human race and fna'
whsfeyer light may be thrown upon
M origin Of man Will come nom 'ne
Great -. central Asian plateau.
Appeals to Imagination.
rhe subject is one that makes 9
,n,verral appeal to the imagination
~. cspses that led to mans evolu'
~. e srom the apes. how that evolti.
~ 80 first accomplished, what
s'r,m,five man looked like a.'d now g
,,.. W. are all subjects upon
1870. d. there is much theory, but as ye'
very little fact. -. ~
W Saving about the first OF next Fen
90. s ~ for the expedition
IN - established In Pekings TBS
~. !. war win be devoted e ssnale'
liz ss,ia ~, and zoology N CHINA
I, II 90 second year the work VIII be car
tne s $500 Mongolia and geolQgist Wi
=, "a. adeIe.d to the field stan me In, III,
s u and nth years archeolos's.'
lo.. = arthropoIogists will be sem 9It y
ana ,v,th the biologists and pa'e
1xn .r,ar,sts win carry on work u var
o,,s part Of Asia ..,on s,oo,
01 RE S. importance Of this region . ION
s.. been recognized but no ssses ,..'
"a Il. sf,,dv on large scale ever IA .
at1e sss s.smpted, and there Y no sim sim
been .rsss y he inhabited surface 9
ilar arr = about which 50 little !
re s. Whether Or not human g
known s.. found ii WIN yield rich col
fictitious as nassslsl VIII Y exhibited, e. !, = =, =
p.ses;ssS En- asssa . natural ,' History ass !
nm ,se Museum buildInss q t time a1 Z % =
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