The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-30
Sea Serpents? Maybe We
Will Sc Monsters Yet
South Seas Expedition of Chi.
cago Museum Is Going
After One

New York, Oct. 3O.-Deep sea
monsters of fiction will become
monsters Of actuality if the 20
illogical expedition setting out from
Boston early in November succeeds
in capturing the marine specimens
which they hope to bring gack from
the depth Of the Pacific ocean for
the Field Museum Of Natural History
in Chicago and for Leland Stanford
university, Palo Alto, California.
Headed by Cornelius Crane.
wealthy son Of Richard 7. Crane.
Jr., Chicago business man and trus-
tee Of the museum, the expedition
will sail $4,000 miles Of deep seas in
the brigantine-rigged vessel Illyria
to collect rare marine fish and in
vertebrates, strange birds, mammals
and reptiles. Special efforts will be
made to find the worlds only real
''sea serpents," which are said to be
poisonous marine snakes found in
the East Indian coral reefs.
Almost Prehistoric Reptiles
Specimens of giant land tortoises
and marine iguanas of Galapagos,
the giant monitor lizards of komodo
which resemble monsters of pre-
historic times, giant frogs. sala-
manders and strange poisonous
snakes peculiar to the western Pa
cific islands, will be sought.
Among the mammals, members of
the expedition hope to secure speci-
mems of the large ochidna of New
Guiana, spiny-coated anteater
which lays eggs like a reptile and
nourshes it's young with milk sup
piled from udders.
Unusual birds to be collected are
the flightless cormorant, the gigan-
tic cassowary of the Moluccas, birds
Of paradise, the mound-builders-
large birds which lay their eggs in
mounds of earth like reptiles-and
wide variety of pheasants.
Vessel Specially Built
The Illyria, built in Lussinpicco-
10, Italy, after a design created by
Henry j. Gielow of New York. is
lat feet long with a 30-foot beam.
She is constructed with an all-steel
hull and equipped with 300-horse-
power Diesel auxiliary motor. Cap
tain S. B. Boutilier, salty sailor Of
80 years experience, will command a
crew Of 18 men aboard the vessel.
When she sails from Boston, the
Illyria will have a personnel Of
scientists and collectors aboard in
GLIDING Crane, Karl p. Schmidt, as
sistant curator of reptiles at the
museum; DR.. Albert w. HERE, cur
ator of the Museum Of Zoology Of
Leland Stanford University; DR.. w.
l.. Moss Of the Harvard Medical
School; CRADLES R. Peavy of Mobile,
Ala; Sidney N. Heap Of Church.
stroke, Montgomeryshire, England,
and Walter A. Weber, artist.
The proposed route will carry the
expedition to Bermuda, Port-au-
Prince, thence through the Panama
Canal to Pearl Islands in the Bay
Of Panama.
The Coast of Asia
| From there, they will set out into
the Pacific to the Cocos Island
Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas
and Society Islands, the Cook, Ton
ga, Fiji and Solomon Islands, to
Port Moresby, New Guiana, and the
Moluccas.
| After searches in the South Pa
cific, they will swing northwest to
Menado, Celebos, British North
Borneo, Dutch Islands Of Komodo,
Lombok, Ball and Java. Singapore,
Bankok, Siam, Saigon, French Indo-
China, Canton, Formosa, Shanghai
and Japan will lead them up the
coast of Asia before setting back
across the north Pacific for stop
at the Aleutian and Shumagin Is
lands for a northernmost sail into
the harbor Of Anchorage, Alaska.
The final leg Of the voyage will
cover the west coast Of Canada and
the United States and then sail
down to Panama and back up the
east coast to close the 30,OOO-mile
voyage at the port Of departure
Boston.