The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-01-30
PLAN SIX NEW SOUTH AMERICAN
 EXPEDITIONS

Chicago, Jan; 2s:-South America
 will be the field of four out of six
 scientific research expeditions to be
 Natural History during the next five l-years Two of these expeditions will
 gather geological speciments in the 1 orea from Brazil to Pata gonia and
 two, one geological and one botanical will study the animal and plant life l of Peru.
 An archaeological expedition will
 visit the Lsthmus of Panama and the ! State of Columbia and at the same | time an esnology expedition will go
 to the Malay Peninsula All expedi-
 ticns will go before summer and will 1 be gone for a period of two to five | years.
 | that plans to extend its expeditions l over a period of five years. The first l of these will be headed by Dr. Oliver c. Harrington, curator of the depart ment, and will proceed to the gem
 producing localities of Brazil One l of the objects of this expedition is to secure a full series of minerals as- sociated with the diamond. Two later expeditions under Dr.
 Farrington's direction will visit the
 tricts of Brazil and the silver and
 copper producing districts of Peru and Bolivia. The latter expedition
 will also take specimens from the 1m portant nitrate and vanadium deposits of Chile.
 Specimens of prehistoric verte- brate life will be searched for by the
 second of the geological expeditions
 This expedition will visit the Santa Cruz beds of Patagonia, certain areas of the Pampean formation of north
 ern Argentine and some cave de
 cure somo specimens of the great
 ground sloths, the Pampas horse and
 other types of vertebrate life of South America. The expedition will ha ha Of Riggs of the department of historical geo. logy of the museum.
 The geological and botanical ex- petitions will work together in the interior of the Sierras of Central Peru and in the region of the sources of the Amazon.
 Dr. Wilfred Ocgood, curator of ZOO 1ogy of the museum, will head the eX- petition which expects to bring back many new SpecinentS of animal life. The botanical expedition will be un- l der the direction of J. Francis Mac 1 bride assistant botanist of the mu scum. The region the expedition will cover is almost unknown as far as its | plant life is concerned.
 | The archaeological expedition un- 1 der the direction of Dr. J. A. Mason | will endeavor to solve some of the | rlNst cries of the inter-relationS or the | great ancient civilizations of the | Americas and will attempt to estab- | fish proof of a connecting link De- | tween the ancient Maya and the Inca | of Peru.
 | The department of archaeology also | plans to pen etrate the Colorado des- l ert next summer and to work among 1 the Eastern Apache and Navaho In dians.
 The expedition headed by Dr. Fay | Cooper Cole will leave in June for the Malay Peninsula to study the origin and migration of the Malay and Ne grito races. Before returning to this country Dr. Cole will attempt to pen l citrate into the interior of Borneo Dr. B: i.aufer, curator of the de | a trip to China to study the aborigin- | al tribes of the Island of Hai-nan. ! He will also make an archaeological | survey of the province of Fu-kien and 1 Manchuria in order to enlarge the 1 Chinese collections of the museum.