Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-10-31
Minute Brain-Box in Five-Foot
Skull Found in Asia, Says
Museum Expert.
DUG UP IN NURSERY OF MAN
PaIeontoIogist of American Museum OF
Natural History Gives Basis for
Belief That Great Desert
Graded Human Race.

| probably had a colossal eating equip
| ment but a minute brafn-boX, accord
ing to DIR. W. D. Matthews, paleontolo-
/ gist of the American Museum Of Nat
ural History.
This giant, known as the Baluchi-
! therium from the fact that Its only
! previous remains were discovered in
! Baluchistan, India, has been represent
ed previously by few leg bones and
other fragments of skeleton, but the
first skull on record is that found by
! the museum party. From the leg
bones it was identified as a big man.
NAL Of the rhinoceros tribe, about the
height of big elephant. Unlike the
short-legged rhinoceros of today, the
bulky Baluchitherium stood on long
! legs like those Of an elephant. Ill
! order 10 be able to browse and root
! from that height it needed head and
neck of tremendous size and length,
such as the elephant would have to
| have if it were not luckily provided
/ with trunk.
An Orphan Among Fossils.
The dinosaur remains found by the
party are probably more Important
! than that Of the Baluchitherium, ac-
cording to Doctor Matthews, although
/ no detailed report on them has yet
been cabled TO this country. The
! Baluchitherium has no near relatives
among the fossils found on the Amer
! lean continent up to the present. 1t is
! believed that many new dinosaurs have
been discovered in the rayines and foot
hills of the Cobb.
This region of central Asia is be-
! ieved by the museum party to be the
! nursery of most Of the animals and
! the original home of the human race.
! Some evidence that it was the great
breeding place OF mammals has been
{ found, but no bones, skulls, relics or
! tools have so far come to light to indi-
cate that this was the part Of the
world where the human race first de-
veloped. The Cobb desert is a region
Of continental proportions and it may
require hundreds Of years OF work by
hundreds Of expeditions to master the
! secrets about the early life OF man be-
! lieved to be entombed under its hills
! and plateaus and which may be ex-
i posed along its water courses.
The belief that man first rose In this
| region has long been held on many
i grounds, but the theory has been great
Iy elaborated by Dr.. Henry Fairfield
| Osborn, president of the museum, Doe
| tor Matthews and other American
! scientists.
( The argument which they have
worked out in great detail is that the
| COW, sheep, dog, cat and horse appear
to have been domesticated in the Cobb.
| The older basis for the theory is the
tradition of many races that they come
! from this region. The East Indian ira
dition, with some evidence to support
it, is that India was populated by men
from the north. The Chinese tradition
is that fhe Chinese came from the
west. The early settlers in the Medi-
terranean and Mesopotamia are be-
iieved to have originated in north cen
trail Asia. This region, now called the
Cobb desert, is not desert in the COM
mon sense qf the word, but partially
salhab itesf lon resembling Montana
! al s.oraingySi; 1t Vas pfbaiably key
different ten thousand. or al hundred
thousand, or few million years ago
Cradle of the Race.
''The highest types of the human race
inhabited the regions adjoining central
Asia or are known TO have come from
that direction within comparatively re-
cent times" said Doctor Matthews.
The lowest types and most primitive
types Of man surviving are in the parts |
most remote from the center.
The HesperOpithecus, or newly re- |
ported ape-man or higher anthropoid |
Of Nebraska, left his home in central |
Asia million years or so ago und mi !
grated by way of Boring straits, then
probably solid land bridge, from Asia
to this continent. The pithecanthro- /
pus of Java, supposedly half way be
tween an anthropoid and human type,
also left Asia within a million years
and migrated to Java, probably then
part of Asia, but later cut off when the
Indian ocean moved into its present
place. The eanthropus Of southern
England, the Heidelberg man of the
glacial deposits Of Germany, the mean
derthal man and other primitive men
probably were driven out of Asia by
the uprising Of stronger types.
Finally man, in his most primitive
shape-the Hottentot, the Bushman,l
the Andaman--was driven out of the
human nursery.
The better strain Of the devolping
human stock is believed to have re-
manned in the Asiatic home until few
thousand years before the dawn of his
tory, when human beings Of excellent
brain power and physique were poured
from the north into Mesopotamia and
about the Mediterranean, migration fol-
lowing migration until all the ances-
tors Of the best stocks of today were S
amntied from A sia info Eurona :