The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-22
ASIA THE MOTHER '0F CONTINENTS;
 CRADLE OF WORLD

New York, Aug. 22-Proof or tne was the "mother of continents and the cradle of life on this globe-car- rying with it great promise or the discovery in the wastes of the Gopi desert of the long sought missing link in the evolution of mankind has been found by the Third Asiatlc Expedition led by Roy Chapman An drews for the American Museum or Natural History, Henry Fairfield os- nounced today.
 would appear to be just a heap of fossilized bones. dug up by band lands of Mongolia. But to the mlnd trained in groping back through hun dreds of thousands of years Tor ms tory of the days when man was not, these fossilized remains for dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts and rep, tiles furnish a conclusion simple ana inevitable as two times two. The discoveries. barely hinted at in cable dispatcches, are fully re- ported and interpreted by pr. os. o "Asia, mother of continents" hopothe- sis-in the current issue of the mag azine oSIA. The magazine co-op- erated with the Museum and the American Asiatic Association in or, ganizing this most ambitious of all similar expeditions. toward the H. nancing of which liberal contributions were made by J. P. Morgan. John D. Rockefeller, IT,. Mrs. Willard F. Kingsley, Dwight ". Morrow, Childs Trick, W. A. Hartman, the late H. F. Davison and many others,
 The hypothesis put forward ey pr; Osborn in 1900-and now connrm mse to his satisfaction--was based on the fact that two great deposits Of re- mains of animals at the dawn period of mammalian life on the northern he misphere had been founo preV'ous. one in Europe, the other In the Amer ican Rockies.
 They could not have originated 6s where the remains were touha. oI,Id U have spread westward from Europe and eastward from the Rockies dur ing the period of early dispersal l. Hence, he held, they must nave or or iginated at some halfway spot on the less explored side of the globe; tray cling as far as the Rockies on the one hand and Europe on the other De- their line He then drew up ser ies of charts locating Asia as the dispersal center, and plotting out Witii a nicety remarkable in view or the exnedition's discoveries, the spots | where the first centers prooaoV were
 A little further on than the expedi- tion has gone so far IS the sectloi i held by paleonologists to have beer
 the first ancestor of man.
 So enthusiastic has Dr. Osborne be-
 come over the expedition s discoveries to date and the promise for the future that he plans to sail for Picking, the
 winter headquarters, September To
 to get first hand reports and ala II mapping out the campaign for the
 second year of the flVe-year prosIaIiL Writing, with elation, on the repof received from MT. Andrews. Dr. Os
 born said of the fossil deposits:
 ..This discovery gives the answer |. , one of the four great auesIiohs ~nie' the expedition sought to solve: name
 lv whether ancient Asia is the mothe
 of the life of Europe to the far west
 of North America to the far east, l , is kind of realization of a paleonto : logic Garden of Eden-of the birth
 place, or Asiatic homeland, from Whic many kinds of reptiles and mammal . spread westward and eastward.
 .NThe existence of such a center ha ; long been a matter of pure theory . We have waited until 1922 to verif = it. This verification has come wit = unexpected suddenness and with
 hopes, and there still remain fou 3 wears in which the great expedition g under Roy Chapman Andrews will il 9 out the details l. MT. Andrews report was made l
 a letter dated May at Urga. in uppe c Mongolia The party had set out froI l. Picking a month before, traversing tn e desert by motor truck toward Turfl - where they planned to meet a carava e of 75 camels with supplies, which ha = been sent on ahead.
 6 Halfway across Mongolia, betwee r. Kalgan and Urga. the attention of tt c explorers was caught by some inter = esting geological exposures, and cam IS was made. While supper was coof
 ing the three geologists of the party 's Walter Granger, Charles, P Berke
 AI .I~
 pecting and within a few yards
 canap, discovered some bones T dinosaurs. This was the sfrst discover \ of giant reptiles in northern Asia.