The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-11-12
Great Expedition viii Explore Re-
mote Sections Of Asia for Most
Primitive Human Remains.
GREATEST EVER ORGANIZED.
China and Mongolia Expected to
Yield Up Treasures In AnthropoI-
ooy and Neutrality-suspicious.
Superstition Big Drawback.


ooy and Archaeology
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 great expedi-
ton to be sent out by the American
Museum Of Natural History In coop
Grafton with the American Asiatic as
ISOLATION and Asia Magazine. The ex-
petition will be the greatest of Its
kind which has ever been organized
by any institution in the world and
will work for five years with large
party of scientists In various remote
regions of central Asia. 1t will be I'M
der the direction and leadership Of
Mr.. 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
parts Of the Far East. The expedition
will be financed by fund Of $25O,OOO,
which IL being provided by the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History, the
American Asiatic association and Asia
Magazine. and the private subscrip-
lions of Mrs. Willard Straight, Messrs.
J. p. Morgan, George F. Baker. Childs
Prick, w. A. Hartman and MIR. and
Mrs. Charles L. Bernheimer.
When in the year 1891. Dutch
army surgeon. Eugene Dubois, while
excavating for fossils in central Java.
discovered near Trinil part Of skull.
two molar teeth and thigh bone. ho
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 manlike animal? II so,
this apeman must have lived approx
imately FIVE hundred thousand years
Hgo. This momentous discovery has
/ been supplemented by that Of other in
! lisputably human remains Of which
: the most ancient. found in southern
Germany. is the Jaw Of the so-calleC
!. Heidelberg man who may be two hun
r bred and fifty thousand years old.
with the exception Of the Java spec
!. linen, all fossil human fragments hav
Z been discovered In Europe or England
n Nevertheless, the leading scientists o
, the day believe that Asia Was the earl
n home of the human race and thu
whatever light may he thrown upo
n the origin Of man win CONT from tn
q great central Asian plateau.
W Appeals to imagination.
It. The subject Is one that makes
Of universal appeal to the imaginatio,
ut The causes that led to mans evol,
to tion from the apes. how that evol,
rs ton was first accomplished, VIII,
n. primitive man looked like a.'d how b
I'd lived-these are all subjects upo
1T which there Is much theory, but as Y,
ng very little fact.
he Leaving about the first of next Fe
on ruary, headquarters for the expedite
he will be established in Picking. tt
nrst year will be devoted TO studi,
u In paleontology and zoology In Chin,
ell the second year the work will be ca
IL. ried into Mongolia and a geologist W
90 he added to the field staff; the tllr
no fourth and fifth years archeologis
90 and anthrOp0logists will be sent q
or. which with the biologists and pa
mn ontOlogists will carry on work Ia val
h,s ors part Of Asia.
II, The Importance Of this region 10
has been recognized, but no syste
:. attic study on a large scale ever h
4 been attempted. and there Is no 81
liar area Of the Inhabited surface
the earth about which so little
known. Whether or not human
the mains are found It will yield rich c
not lections In all branches of science.
are The material will be exhibited In [
proposed Hall Of Asiatic Life in
American Museum Of Natural Histo
ous which It 10 hoped the city will add
~ the Museum buildings In the near
NJ FEA Al - prsssnt time 4