The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-20
ASIA THE MOTHER
OF CONTINENTS
Researches Prove Her the
Distributing Point
of Life

Cob desert Of the l~ong-sought
missing link" in the evolution OF
Wankind-hus been found by the
mira AsiHtlc expedition led by Roy
Chapman Andrews for the American
Museum OF natural history, Henry
Fairfield Osborn, the museums d.
rector, announced today,
THE proof" to the uninitlato.
would appear to be just a heap OF
fossillzed bones. dug up by a band
OF curious men In the frozen waste
lands Of Mongolia. But 20 the mind
trained ~ cropping back through
hundreds Of thousands Of years for
hlstory Of the days when man was
not. these fOHailizod remains of d.
nOHaurs ana other prehistoric beasts
and reptiles furnish a conclusion
simple and Inevitable as two times
two
The discoveries, barely limited at
In cable dispatches, arc fully report
ed and Interpreted by Doctor Osborn
Original prepayment OF the Asia
mother OF continents" hypothesis-
In the current issue OF the magizlno
Asia The magazine co-operated
with the museum and the American
Asiatlc association In organizing this
most ambitious Of all similar expedi-
tons, toward the financing Of which
liberal contributions were made by
J. 7. Morgan, John -. Rockefeller,
IT., Mrs. Willard ID. Straight, George
u. Baker, Darwin y. Kingsley.
Dwight w. Morrow, Childs E'rlck,
w. a. Hartman, the late II. T..
Dawson and many others.
Tho hypothesis put forward by
Doctor Osborn In 1900-and now
confirmed TO his satisfaction-was
based on the fact that two great de-
OF remains OF animals at the
dawn period OF mammalian life on
the northern hemisphere had been
round previously at widely soparat-
ed points-the n In Europe, the
other In the American rockies.
They could not have originated
whero the remains were found, Doc
tor Osborn reasoned, else they would
spread westward from Europe
and eastward from the rockies dur
ing the period OF early dispersal.
h held, they must have
Mt some halfway spot on
less explored side OF the globe,
travelling as Tar as the rockies on the
one hand and Europe on the other,
the early sunset on the last OF
line. lie then drew up a
series Of charts locating Asia ms the
DISPERSAL center, and plotting out
With u nicely remarkable In view of
ne expeditions discoveries, the
'pots whore the first centers prob
ably were located.
A little further on than the exs
has gone so far liz the sec
Ion labeled "primate"-the species
II ape which paloontologists believe
o have been the first ancestor of
nan.
No enthusiastic has Doctor Osborn |
become over the expeditions discov- |
ories to date, and the promise for
future that he plans to sail for
Peking, tho winter headquarters,
september 10, To get first hand re-
ports and aid In mapping out the
'ampatGn for the second year of the
program.
writing, with citation, on the re-
port received from Mr.. Andrews.
Osborn said of the fossil de-
This discovery gives the answer
o one of the four great questions
yhlch the expedition sought to solve.
Namely, whether ancient Asia is
no mother Of the life OF Europe TO
no far west. of North America to
he far east. II is n kind OF r~ealiza-
ION of a paleontologic Garden OF
Sden-of the birthplace, or Asiatic
homeland, from which many kinds
" reptiles and mammals spread
westward and eastward.
The existence OF such n center
las long been a matter of pure the
Try. We have waited until 1922 TO
'erity 1t. This verification has come
With unexpected suddenn6ss and
win "A completeness beyond our
ondest hopes, and there still re-
mains four years In which the great
Expedition. under Roy Chapman An.
lrows will fill out the details"
Mr.. Andrews report was made in
letter dated May . at Urga. In up
Mongolia. The party had set
nut from Picking a month before.
reversing the desert by motor truck
.oward Turin whore they planned 70
meet a caraVan of IS camels with
.upplies, which had been sent on
Halfway across MONGOLIA, between
\algan and urga, the attention of
ne explorers was caught by some
interesting geological exposures. and
amp was made. While supper was
'ooklng, the three biologists OF the
'arty--Walter Granger, Charles p.
and Frederick Morris-be-
prospecting, ana within a few
OF camp, discovered some
ones OF dinosaurs, This was the
lrst discovery OF giant reptiles In
.orthern Asia
The region promised to be so ms
eresting that Mr.. Andrews left the
biologists at work and pushed on
Turin, l62 miles south OF Urgn,
nth other members OF the party, to
the caravan, He accompanied
caravan to Urga, planning TO
lunge deeper into the heart OF Asia.
nut at Urga he received a letter
7 o m tho ossll-hunter-in- chief,
ranger, telling OF such rich dlscov-
ries that he hurried back.
the dinosaurs, remains OF which
ere discovered in great profusion,
ere found TO belong to the upper
r~etaceous period-the very close of
age OF reptiles-and 10 be strik-
lgly similar 10 those % the rockies
America and those found in
on top OF the dinosaur beds were
Iyers OF mammalian FOSSILS, be-
to the dawn period OF mann
Ihl life-the eocene Above these
ere fossils belonging TO the lower
I%iocene, or middle period, and
with these were the re-
lains OF a giant mammal not found ,
.ther In Europe or North America,
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