The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-12-09
ITO SEARCH FOR
MISSING LINK"
,orsat Exposition WI ENiore Re-
nsts Sections Of Asia for Most
Primitive Human Remains.
GREATEST EVER @elGzB
ehtps md Mongolia Expse4e1 -
Ytsi1 W Treasures In Arthsspel-
- and A-ehASoseoy-chiasas
o0psfsfition Dig Drawesek-

New York--To search for the most
primitive human refn1inx. the miss
ing link" between man and the APPS
VIII be the o. ec1 Of . great erpe3i-
f1or 20 be sent oct By the American
Museum OF Natural Hiatory to co-ep-
oFafion with the American Aslatie 81
sociafiou and Asia Magazine The ex-
petition viii be the greatest Of IFS
Kind which has ever been Organized
b. any institution IN the xerlG snd
Will work for 6se Year, with . large
pArry Of seientists In various remote
regions Of central Asia. II VIII be IN
1er the direction and Leadership Of
Ar. Roy Chapman Andrews. Associate
Curator o! Mammals ia the American
Museum OF NaturAl History. who for
- last ten Year, has been Carrying
"a sociological explorations IN vari0as
DaFts Of the Far East The expedition
Will b. financed By . fund Of $4,000,
which 10 being provided BY the Amer
lean Museum Of Natural History. The
American Asisttc association and Asia
NaEnsipe and the private sub&crip-
t1ous Of Mrs. Willard Straight. Messrs
}. r. Morgan. George r Baker. chiIds
Yr5ck. W. A. Hartman and Mr.. ard
11 Charles l. Bernbeimev
When In the year 1901. . Dutch !
army surgeon. Eugene Dubois. while |
excavnfing for Fossils in central lava. 1
discovered near TriniI par Of shnii. |
two rnoiar teeth and q thigh bone be 1
had unearshed one o. the most per L
pIexfng connpSruns IN the study of 1
human ancestry Were the remains
those Of sn extremely early 'ype 81
prehnnsn msniike animal. II 50.
this npeinsn mus have lived approx
ipnteiy 1--WE hundred rbo1ssnd years
ago This roiBsnioas discovery has
ke~n supplemented hy tfss Of ofhe, ip-
dispufnbiy armsb resnsias o. whfrb
the nssss ancient found IN ssufhern
Germany. + TIE tsw ~ the so-cxilsi
Heiae1berx uasB Who frsy BE two hun
dred ard fffy thousand yesrs old
With The excsgstssn of fbe 1srf spec
isrsen- MI fossil human frnysBen;p have
es-sn discovered in Europe cr England
Nevertheless fiss leading srsersissx ~
The eny ss-sirve that Asss vas the early
hssssse Of ff,e isursssB rsre and that
wss;~-ey fi<ssf may ~ thrown upon
~ ertxfr ~ nssa VII cprne fran the
CREST eesifrai ASSN ris;enn
App-sss 70 irnscinsfiee
TIE snflSers - ofss INST -rastes
uriveyrsi ssfs-ss 81 fbe irna gsrsf5or.
TIE cnnzes fttaf ss-f 20 rnsr'S ~yssfr,-
tion frsra she sr,es hes that esosu-
rion ~ak FRS accomplished shaf
primitive rlsn looked iske spf how be
'fred-sheNe arr aii sasslte~ts upar
whi~h there is 1ncb theory. bur az ret .
very iirf1. fsfs
Leaving sisnfsf t.se srst ~ next Feb
-usry. her dasarfers for fbe sxpeiiffon
rill DC established In Picking The
srsi yesr xfii be devose.a 10 sfndis.- ,
n pslesa, oiogr and 1ooioxy 10 chins |
be s@eond year the work viii he car {
He'd into Moneolin and q eeoiogfst win {
" added to the Geld stat the third. I
vurth and nfsh years Psychologists '
md snthropoiogtsts win ba sent out {
rhich with the biologists and pale /
WIN carry 90 work In vari- :
'ns part Of Asia. I
The importance OF this regioe long I
Ias been recognized. but no systesD- ,
tic study on Z large scale ever has I
cen attempted. aud there h no sion q
AR Area Of the inhabited surface Of 4
be- earth about which 80 little 10 b
nown. Whether or DOT human re- 1,
aiY.a a -x<.k. Z r.
setious IN all branches Of science. 81
The material will b. exhibited in the b
rcposed Hall Of Asistic Life 10 the y
mericnn Auneutu Of Natural History. q
'hich II II hoped the city viii add to 4
10 Museum buildings Ia the near fu- 4
IRE AT the present dine II one i
iahes seriously 70 study Axlatie 70 .
o@y one must 20 10 the British M VI
son Of London. II II hoped that this a
Lpedition VIII bring to New York the Il
rsatest natural history collections \
hich the world has ever seea and u
I'll make New York the center Of q,
Eias,c scientific activity. n
One Of the reasons why 80 little 10 4,
1own Of the fossiss OF China and e,
'tef9ot Aslh - tfht material OF This q
nj L. Of considerable value to the
hfnese. Fossils are supposed to have ~
ondefful medicinal qualities They In
- known as dragons boDes~ and 70
heDsyer a fossil yielding locality has N
eeD found. II II carefully concealed G,
eyertheless during the last three p<
ears Or. j. @. Anderson. Mining Ad- Ia
ser to the Chinese Republic. has
ZEN carrying on Investigations Oh be-
lf OF Swedish Institutions and has d
ade some remarkable discoveries. Or. II.
ndersson n practically the nrst SCI OF
ltist who has ever collected fossils q
erscpally In Chipa- IN
We know almost n little about some m
the living natives Of Asia N about er
le fossil history Of the country. Long ",
efore the Chinese arrived. China was co
habited by Aboriginal tribes, which 70
ere pushed south and ives, Just &c
J de Indians were driven westward o.
! tie white men when they ad- n
need across the American continent. A,
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