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Natural History in New York and there identified as skeletal parta of the giraffe, camel, rhinoceros) and other fauna of a kind to in- dicate that this was the atrata exactly, preceding the time of primitive man.

Hospitable Place.

A. careful search for the fore. runners of the récently discover. ed "Peking Man" is to be the chief.

"If the Peking man's ancestors object of the Central Asiatic Ex-Andrews declared, it is almost came down from Mongolia," Dr.

pedition's fifth and Anal trip to certain that this is the region from | Mongolia which left for Kalgan which he came. So far as we can ander the direction

Judge from the material which the of Dr. Roy Mongol brought back, it was A fairly hospitable place in which to "On our last trip in 1928," Dr. live in those days. Probably it Andrews said In discussing his was sparsely forested—just enough plan with a group of Press repre- struggle for existence without ac- to confront man with a healthy

sentatives, "we found eastward tually killing him off-and the of the Kalyan-Urga road a great finding of beaver bones suggests area of pllocene rock which is the that there must have been a good strata in which we are most likely deal of water there." to find remains ofpericially, and

primitive

ing a shovel-toothed mastodon and other very interesting fossils, but we were not able to spend much time there because it was towards the end of the season and we had to come back. This area

400 miles northward of Kalgan.

The edge of sand dunes is aboutj

Dr. Andrews anticipates that the expedition will be able to reach this point by car in three days, after which there will be a journey of eight or ten days by camel to com- the lake where he hopes to find prises many hundreds of thousanda traces of primitive man. When the of square miles and runa practical-aand dunes have been thoroughly ly from Dolounor northward up to explored a return visit will be paid the border of Outer Mongolia. It to one or two fossil localities

is a region of sand dunes. We got which, first discovered in 1928, right over to the edge of them have not yet been properly in- several times but could not get investigated. It is believed that one to them with our cars.

The Personnel.

of these localities holds an almost complete skeleton of the glant; Important Localities.

baluchitherium, described by Dr. "This time we shall explore Andrews as the largest land mam- these dunes with the greatest care, mal yet known to science.

Pro- leaving, our cars at the edge and viously the expedition lacked the taking to camels for a couple of time and facilities to attempt its months. In this formation we have removal but Dr. Andrews hopes all the conditions that one could that this year they will be able to ask for from the standpoint of bring it back with them. locating the place where the Peking Man' got his start. For The 1980 expedition includes in that reason we are looking forward its personnel Pere Teilhard de to an extremely important year of Chardin, the French palaeonto- work. It is far and away the most logist and geologist, and is accom-, important locality that we have panied by two Chinese who have ever investigated so far as primi- been delegated by the Nankingt tive man la concerned. This is authorities as official representa- going to be a very definite search tives of the Chinese government. for the 'Peking man's' ancestors." One of the Chinese, Dr. Chiang, of Dr. Andrews had heard from the the University of Canton, is to Mongols that somewhere in the have the rank of co-director of the midst of this region was a great expedition. His colleague is Mr. lake the shores of which were.W. C. Pei, the young geologist who strewn with fossil bones and last found the skull of the "Peking | summer he sent a trained Mongal man" last December.

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