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other commercial projects that have
involved digging in China have always
been able to compromise with pro-
testing villagers and they have found
even within the past ten years a very
great change in attitude. In Tibet
conditions are even more difficult. All
the gold In the country belongs to the
Lama church and the natives can con-
ceive of only two reasons why for
eigners should come to their country
either as ~gOld-seekers or as mission
aries.
Obtaining the animals for the groups
in the Hall of Aslatic Life will fur
nish excitement enough for the most
blase sportsmen. In a corner of the
Cobb desert are a few herds of the
only living wild horses. Moreover,
there are, In the Cobb, wild camels and
wild asses, as well as antelopes that
can run sixty miles an hour. The
horses, asses and antelopes can be
run down in motor cars. lassOed by
the Mongol cowboys, and some of the
specimens brought back alive to the
New York Geological Park. Not far
from this particular part of the desert,
mountains tower TO a height of fifteen
thousand feet, where there are big
horn sheep and ibex that have never
heard the crack OF a hlgh-power rifle.
On the Tibetan steppes are enormous
yak, snow leopards, giant pandas and
beautiful golden monkeys with blue,
u%pturned noses; some of these species
are among the rarest and least known
animals of the world. In China Is
the takin, a creature with a veritable
golden fleece" a strange oxlike AMI
NAL that roams the highest mountain
valleys and that actually represents
an intermediate stage between the an
telope and the goat. In the forests of
Manchuria is the long-haired tiger of
the Anur River; a tiger larger and
finer than the royal Bengal Of Indian
| fame, which has furnished sport for
kings and emperors; a tiger living in
caves amid forests drifted deep with
snow.
The scientific results Of the third
Asiatic expedition will be embodied
In a series Of volumes that should be,
for many years to come, the stand
ard work on the natural history Of
Central and Eastern Asia, and also In
popular books written In non-technical
language.
Would Help China.
There is a very real desire on the
part of the sponsors for the expedi-
ton to make 1t a factor In the devel-
opment' Of the educational life OF the
Chinese Republic. China he's no lnsti-
tutions wherein Natural history objects
can be studied and exhibited by mod
ern methods and where the scientific
work of her OWL people can be en-
couraged and directed. II was there
fore decided to invite the Chinese
government to cooperate with the ex-
petition In carrying on Its work in
the Orient. China will be invited TO
delegate to the expedition certain
men who have had already prelimi-
nary instruction In various branches
Of science; under the best specialists
in the world, these men, while in the
field, will receive training In modern
methods Of scientific exploration and
study.
When the expedition has been COM
pleted. Its sponsors will agree to de-
posit In Picking a duplicate set Of the
collections, which viii form the basis
Of the Chinese Museum of Natural
History. The proposed institution will
then have a valuable nucleus Of spec
linens for exhibition and study and
a staff OF expert Chinese to carry on
the work. II will remain for the gov
eminent to set aside a suitable build
ing where the collections can be
housed.
The third Aslatic expedition, with
Its rich possibilities for making i'm
portant discoveries In the departments
Of paleontology, archaeology, zoology.
an~thropology and geography, is des
tined to increase the prestige Of the
United States In the world Of science
The American scientists WHO will pro
mote the advancement Of Chinese sci
ence will cooperate with the Chinese
in an entirely new field. Americans
with far-seeing idealism viii welcome
an alliance OF this kind. tending to
cement the friendly relations that al
ready exist between the two great re
publics Of the East and the West
They win wish to insure the posi-
billty OF making the third AsiatIc ex-
petition the greatest expedition ever
sent out to Increase the wealth OF hu-
knowledge.