Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-21
DR.. R. c. ANDREWS
WEEDS TOMORROW
Head of Natural History
Museum to Marry Mrs.
w. A. Christmas.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
NEW YORK, February 21.-Dr. Roy
Chapman Andrews, director of the
American Museum of Natural History
and Mrs. Wilhelmina Anderson Christ
mas of New York City are to be mar
ried here tomorrow. The wedding
which will be attended only by i'm
mediate relatives, is to take place at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Sheedy, close personal friends of the
couple
Mrs. Christmas is the widow of
Franklin B. Christmas, formerly of
Clark, Dodge & Co. She is the daugh-
ter of DR.. and Mrs. W. E. Anderson
of Chattanooga, Tenn, where she was
born.
The couple will spend about month
in California, going by way of the
Panama Canal aboard the S. S. Penn
sylvania of the Panama Pacific Line,
which leaves New York Saturday.
The wedding will take place. by the
way, two days before the first issue Of
This Week, The Stars new color
gravure Sunday magazine, which con-
tains one of DR.. Andrews faScinat-
ing scientific articles.
BeIoit College Graduate.
DR.. Andrews was born in Beloit,
Wis, where, in 1906, he graduated
from Beloit College and Immediately
came to New York and the American
Museum of Natural History.
cninntifin
career and explorations, from 1908 to
1914, were devoted to study of the life
and habits of whales, on which DR..
Andrews became an expert authority.
In 1914, after having sailed all the
seven seas, Dr. Andrews turned his
attention to land explorations. His
first important expedition was in the
unexplored forests of Northern Korea
and the Manchuokuan border.
Prof Henry Fairfield Osborn S
prophecy that Central Asia would
prove to be the incubating center for
northern mammalian life focused DR..
Andrews attention. on the possibilities
of exploring this grim plateau. He
conceived the idea of series of expe-
ditionS extending over a period OF 10
years to explore the Central Asian
Plateau. Ills ambitious program was
to learn its geological structure. fossil
life, past climate and vegetation: to
make collections of its living animals,
birds, fish and reptiles, and to map the
UNEMPLOYED regions of the Cobb Desert
To carry out these plans it was neces-
Sary that the expedition have geolo-
gists, palaeontologists, Psychologists,
topographers and other scientists. For
the first time. motor cars were to be
driven into the Cobb Desert, opening
a new field for future commercial
traffic.
AS leader of the Central Asiatic ex-
petitions of the American Museum Of
Natural History, DR.. Andrews took his
first expedition into the field in 1916
to work in the territory of Thibet,
Southwest China and Burma. His
second expedition went into North
China and Outer Mongolia in 1919, and
the third expedition has worked in
Central Asia, especially in Mongolia,
since 1921, where it uncovered some
of the richest fossil fields in the world.
In 1913 DR.. Andrews took the M. A.
degree from Columbia University. In
1918 he served in the intelligence serv-
ice in China. He was awarded the
Elisha Kent Kane Gold Medal of the
Philadelphia Geographical Society,
previously given to only eight ex-
DlOrerS