The Washington times., 1922-12-03
Scientists at Last Find the Spot Where Nature
Huge, Unwieldy Prehistoric Creatures and
Build Up New Warm-Blooded Variety of
Himself Was There in the

will make it possible to understand Just
how this strange creature appeared.
Writing of the Importance of the
work of the expedition DR.. Osborn says:
"These several discoveries are of epoch
making Importance. The animals already
found render it certain that we shall find
more, that the discovery of ancestral four
or five-toed horses, tapirs and rhinoce-
roses is simply question of broader and
more intensive exploration.
''The discoveries already made of fossil
reptiles and Of fossil mammals of close
European and of American relationship di-
rectly in the heart of Asia constitute the
fulfilment of one of the great objects of
the expedition, namely, the establishment
of the life-linking region between Europe
and North Acknowledgements most
auspicious and encouraging
The Cobb Desert is so iorbidding that
it has never been thoroughly explored by
modern man, but the eastern portion,
where the Andrews expedition trekked
over the sandy wastes, have been fur
rowed by several caravan routes. The
earth's surface is greatly eroded, evident
ly by water in prehistoric times, and by
wind, that acts like a sand-blast nova
days.
Archaic rock sticks out from low, flat
topped mountains. Ripple-marked strata
proclaim an earlier life when moisture
was plentiful, and even now pools of
brackish water have settled in what are
undoubtedly the basins of prehistoric
lakes whose borders formed the most effec-
tive places for the worlds first mammals
to breed.
The climate is SO changeable .hat an
uncomfortably cold night frequently fol-
lows a very hot day. Into this desoate
district the expedition pressed, and the
life its members experienced is told by
Charles P. Berkey, who writes: eve
have been out a month to-day and have
covered Cos miles of reconnaissance 90.
Nov we are camped on the Bo. uk Col,
about twenty miles southwest of Urga.
81 am writing in a tent where arr
protected from the wind, but it is n ,es-
sary to keep bundled up as if it were real
Winter-with leather vests, fur-lined
coats and gloves and Winter caps /
haven't had my heavy cap off except the
few times tried to wash my face, either
day or night. for ten days. We have
come nor.h fast, and have at ne same
time climbed to an elevation of about
5000 feet; so perhaps we got ahead of
the Spring season. Fruit trees were in
blossom when we left Peking a month
ago.
But we are having mighty good
time. This rough life is a great recrca-
ton for me, and il is agreeing with me
in every way. My sleeping bag is one of
the Peary stock that did service on North
Pole work; so when ! get too cold 60 to
bed 1t is always comfortable.
This has been an exceptional section
and given all the problems any one could
wish for. We have passed ancient pre-
Cambrian rock beds Of simple origin at
least fifteen times since leaving Kalgan
We have had faultings and warpings
domes and basins galore. In addition,
igneous exhibits of almost every kind.
from old, eroded, deep-seated grant /,
bosses that now stand up in mountain
form to little volcanic vents so recent that
one can pick up scoria and bread-crust
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