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Great Expedition viii Explore Re-
mote Sections of Asia for Most
Primitive Human Remains.
GREATEST EVER ORGANIZED.
China and Mongolia Expected "a
Yield Up Treasures In A%nthropol.
,ony and Neutrality-suspicious.
Superstition Big Drawback.

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Superstition Big Drawback.
New York-To search for the most
primitive human remains, the miss
ing link" between man and the apes,
will be the object Of a great expedi-
ti0n to be sent out by the ANGLICAN
Museum of Natural History In coop
.eiation with the American Asiatic as
sOciatlon and Asia Magazine. The ex-
pedltion will be the greatest OF its
Kind which has sever been organized
by any institution in the world and
will work for five years with a large
party of scientists In various remote
Eeglons of central Asia. 1t will be I'M
der the direction and leadership of
MIR. Roy Chapman Andrews, Associate
Curator of Mammals In the American
Museum OF Natural History. who for
the last ten years has been carrying
ON geological explorations In various
i parts of the Far East. The expedition
Newiu be financed by q fund Of $250.000,
which Is being provided by the Amer
Scan Museum of Natural History. the
American Asiatic association and Asia
Magazine, and the private subscrip-
sfons of Mrs. Willard Straight, Messrs.
J. p. Morgan. George f. Baker. Childs
.ErIck, W.. A. Hartman anc nr. and
Mrs Charles L. Bernheimer.
When in the year 1891, a Dutch
army surgeon, Eugene Dubois. while
vexcavating for fossils in central Java,
discovered near Trinil part Of a skull.
two melar teeth and a thigh bone, he
had unearthed one Of the most per-
picking conundrums In the study Of
human ancestry. Were the remains
those Of an extremely early type of
prehuman manllke animal? IL so,
ehis apeman must have lived approx
azmately five hundred thousand years
ago. This momentous discovery has
been supplemented by that of other In
4disputabiy human remains Of which
1fhe most ancient, found In southern
Germany, is the jaw Of the so-called
Heidelberg man who may be two hun
dred and fifty thousand years old.
With the exception Of the Java spec
Nnen. all fossil human fragments have
been discovered In Europe or England.
nevertheless. the leading scientists Of
the day believe that Asia was the early
Aome of the human race and that
whatever light may be thrown upon
che origin of man will come from the
great central Asian plateau.
Appeals to Imagination.
The subject is one that makes a
universal appeal to the Imagination.
The causes that led to mans evolu-
ton from the apes. how that evolu-
ton was first accomplished, what
primitive man looked like AID how ne
aived-these are all subjects upon
which there is much theory. but as yet
very little fact.
Leaving about the first of next Feb
ruary, headquarters for the expedition
will be established in Picking. The
FIRST year will be devoted to studies
IN paleontology and zoology Ia China /:
the second year the work Will be car
sfed into Mongolia and a geclcgist will
De added to the field staff; the third.
fourth and fifth years PSYCHOLOGISTS
and anthropologists will be sent out
which with the biologists and pale
.ontologists will carry on work IN rarf-
Gus part Of Asia.
The importance Of this region long
has been recognized. but no system
attic study on a large scale ever has
been attempted. and there Is no sim
Mar area Of the Inhabited surface of
the earth about which 50 little "a
known. Whether or not human re-
mains are found II win yield rich col
sections In all branches Of science.
The material viii be exhibited In the
proposed Hall Of Asiatlc Life In the
American Museum Of Natural History,
~hIch II Is hoped the city win add 10
me Museum buildings In the rear fu-
~ure. At the present time II one