Evening star., 1928-12-15
ANDREWS DEPICTS
COBB EXPLORATION
Fossil of Largest Land Man,
NAL and Another Dinosaur
Egg Found in Desert.

DR.. Roy Chapman Andrews described
the major discoveries of his most recent
expedition to Central Asia from which
he has Just returned before members
of the National Geographic Society last
evening at the Washington Auditorium
and showed remarkable motion picture
films of the adventures OF the eXplora-
tions. Members of the party ran the
gamut from binding sandstorms to en-
counters with native brigands.
They brought back the fossil OF tne
largest land mammal yet disclosed: a
mammoth creature which stood 16 feet
high, had a neck towering IL feet above
that, and moved about on legs as mas
sive as the pillars of cathedral. 1t ate
the tops of trees in the Cobb millions OF
years ago. before that region was one OF
the most arid deserts on the face OF the
earth.
A second remarkable find was the
skull of titanothere, a Saddle-shapeo
skull from which the nose bone pro-
trudes straight up, feet above the
eyes, and at the top was bulbous put-
ton.
Then there was a nastodon with q
scoop-shovel jaw, formed OF dental ma,
terial. with which it scooped up 1000
from the marsh lands, also in ages pas!
before it's habitat had become deser,
so that the explorers at times hao grea'
difficulty in getting water either loI
themselves or their camels.
Patch Camels' Feet.
The men travelled in automobiles
across sands, through mud IN the less
arid stretches and among rocks. Inell
supplies were transported by camels
And the discarded rubber tires OF tne
automobiles were used to patch the Iee'
of the camels-a process Wnlcn lul
nished one amusing reel OF the pictures
When a camel was ready to sneo ms
woo, II was plucked from the animal tc
furnish material for packing the specl-
mems brought back by way OF kalgar
and Peking to New York.
DIR. Andrews also reported the tndlne
of more dinosaur eggs. These eggs
he announced, had aged. He formerly
had asserted they were 10,00O,OOO years
old. now it is believed they are 95,u0o
600 years old. He explained the ols-
crepancy by telling that scientists nov
agreed that the old-time estimates OF
the different geological periods were
far too short to explain the changes
that had come upon the face OF the
earth and its living creatures whose re-
mains are being discovered.
Radio, the explorer said. Is not an
unmixed blessing upon an expeo ion
of this character. It is useful for time
signals, which help determine Longitude
necessary for exact map making, but
the messages from home are as apt to
distract the explorers from the task
in hand as telegram to leading
lady delivered during the intermisslon
of a play. It is far better for the work
of such an expedition, he said, to be
incommunicado.
Find Dune Dwellers.
Among the remains of human life
found were skeletons of peoples who
occupied the desert 5000 years or SC
ago. before the Mongols came, and
much older remains. probably 10000
years, of the dune dwellers, so named
from the sandy places where they had
their camp sites. And from these sites
many implements of this stone age pc
riod were collected.
Though the expedition carried many
supplies, it had to depend upon game
for meat, and gaZelles provided an
adequate supply. At times the tenn
perature registered 140 degrees, but the
air was so dry that this was not un-
bearable. Shaving cream would dry on
the mems faces before the razor could
be applied. Conditions were so rigorous
in the Western Cobb that the camels
died like flies"