Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-04-07


are too impatient to wait for the machine that
annihilates time and distance and topography.
They must be at the work of pryng into the lew
remaining mysteries of the earth.
Anyway the spring of 1921 sees at least score
of expeditions on the way or in preparation
The only international project is one to discover
the origin of the Polynesian race Of the South
Pacific
Pan-American exploration of tropical Ameri-
ca will he limited to nations of the western hem
isphere
An American expedition to British Guiana Is
commercially important in that it may uncover a
new diamond field.
The third Asiatic expedition of the American
Museum of Natural History to China to discover
evidence that the missing link" actually once ex-
listed is possibly the most scientifically important
The project of the Royal Geographical society
to ascend Mount Everest (29,OO2 ft), the highest
mountain in the world, is possibly the most fas-
cinating.
Among the other exploring projects the fol-
lowing: One to the Antarctic; six to the Arctic;
four to Africa; four to Central and South Amer
lea one to Siberia
The project to attempt to discover the origin
of the Polynesian race originated at recent con-
ference of scientists in Honolulu, under the di-
rectioh of the Pan-Pacific union, at which it was
agreed 10 undertake a survey of the islands of
the South Pacific. The countries interested in the
expedition and which will have representatives
with it are the United States England, Japan,
Canada, Australia. New Zealand, Hawaii and the
Philippines Yale, Harvard and other educational
institutions supporting the project. There
never has been any doubt that the Hawaiian,
Samoan Tahitian, TOngan and Maori are closely
akin. Their legends speech, customs and build
all testify to the relationship but hitherto their
origin has been lost in the mists of the ages They
believed by many scientists to be of Caucasian
origin Meanwhile the Polynesian is dying fast;
his race is passing out at high speed and the in
vestigations are being pushed with as little delay
as possible
Louis r. Sullivan of the American Museum of
Natural History New York, has been conducting
Investigations along this line. Bodily, facial and
cranial characteristics of the Poynesian, accord
ing to Mr. Sullivans tables show that he is eleven
parts Mongoloid, five parts European, five parts
Mongolod-European and two parts MongOloid-Me-
lanasian. His conclusion is that the Hawaiian
and his Polynesan brothers originally came from
Asia.
Systematica exploration and research in the
interest of natural science will be started in the
future in Central and South America, should
plans being perfected by representatives of
American scientific organizations meet with the
anticipated success, DR.. A. S. Hitchcock of the
Smithsonian institution announces Under the su-
pervision of committee of scientists headed by
Doctor Hitchcock, the institute for research in
tropical America has been formed and preliminary
dIIdASeIHeAts 4ol peSlAllhS llS WoIh CoIhpleleu III
u series of meetings called by the national re-
search council. In addition to exploration along
botanical, anthropologcal, geological, geological
lines, the institute plans to establish a system of
research stations and laboratories in the tropics
at which scientific experimentation will be
ried on.
Because of the necessity of limiting the scope
of the organizations activities at least until the
time when it shall be entirely equipped to branch
out, Doctor Hitchcock explains, countries outside
the two American continents will not be permitted
to participate. While the cooperation of all trop
ical American countries will be sought, it is pro-
posed at present to admit representatives of South
and Central American scientific bodies only to
associate or correspondent membership.