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Professor Gregory's Expedition.

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An expedition which is in-

CANOCD (GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMAS,teresting politicians as well as At the meeting of the Royal sportsman, which will enable the £4.500,00 Geographical Society last month. people of America to gain a more the French Ambassador, on be intimate knowledge of British hall of the Societe de Geographie Tule in India and whieb will also of Paris, presented a gold medal help to draw still closer together 10 Professor J.W. Gregory, F.R.S.the ties between Britain and the for his geographical work in East United Stater, has been planned Hon. Mr. E. Tar Africa. Professor Gregory after-by Col Faunthorpe, que Cam

missioner in Lucknow and A.D.C. to the King, and Mr. Arthur 8. wards described to the Society the results of his receat journey, with Mr. J. C. Gregory, in the Vernas, the well-known art con- The object of the expedition, mountains of Chinese Tibet, of noisseur. which the following is som Mr. Vernay explained to a rep-

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Colonel Faunthorpe Was in prolongation of the Himalaya, the place, of the mountains of America with the British His in the sion during the war. Mr. Vernay mountain system of Asia, and has lived there for twenty two arrangement Fears; and these two Englishmen, remarkable of the rivers of South-eastern in recognition of the splendid Tibet, which has been described hospitality which Americans have as one of the most extraordinary shown to our countrymen, and which WAS specially farked features of the earth's land sur- face. These problems are in-during the war, intended to make with the to America a gift of the collec timately connected formation of the basin of the tion. The American authorities are sending a taxidermist with Indian Ocean.

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"Seck knowledge," said Mo-them, and they themselves are hammed, even if it is found in taking a cinematographer, who China, and in accordance with will make dlm records not only that injunction of the Prophet the of big game shooting, but also of two authors of the paper landed the general conditions in lodia. because," Mr. Vernay said, "I at Bhamo, on the Upper Irawadi.

anxious to show the Chinese am very fifty miles from the frontier. This port of departure American people the actual con- was selected in obedience to theditions in India and the beneficent principle of the Burmese proverb effect of British rule, which is that an old road is a fast road, not quite perfectly understood in £3,700.00 Treaty port of Tengyueh in South-be presented to the museum, will western China is one of the trade be shown to probably million £3,000,0routes of Asis which has been and a half prople a year, and the used since pre-historic times result must be that, apart from {

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over the frontier mountains were ined in this way, they will see sent back, and a Chinese sta that this country appreciates the was engaged; and permission was almost incredible things which obtained to proceed to Likiang, America did during the war for the administrative headquarters every Englishmen whose duty near the borders of Chinese Tibet,took him to that country."

"The expedition was to start in As part of this rosd across unsurveyed country in December, when Mr. Verony was rife to leave London for India to meet which brigandage

Colonel Faunthorpe in Lucknow ов insisted authorities the

expadi- in Japuary. "Then we go," be the of the money tion being sent on either by desit said," to Nepal for the great one- or along the main road. The ex-borned rhinocerous. We also hope pedition arrived at Liking before to get tiger there. From Nepal we its money, and a further check go down to the United Provinces was threatened by the refusal of for swamp deer and various other the magistrate to allow the ex-pecies of deer: and thence on to pedition to proceed farther north. Bhopal for black back and sa- This decision was found to be in bur, and to Mysore for gaur (the obedience to izstractions from the bison of Indian sportsmen). There provincial capital, but the magis- we hope to obtain a gronn con- trate of Liking ultimately agreed sisting of a bull, a cow, a yearl Our bope, in- to let the expedition proceed,ing, and a calf. provided he had no further indeed, throughout the expedition. is to obtain groups of various structions from the capital; on the receipt of a letter stating that animals, and have them mounted the travellers were going on in for the museura in enormous glas spite of his warning and entirely at cases in their natural environ- their own risk. Meanwhile & Chinment. The specimens will be ese marchant in the city bad placed entirely by themselves in: greed to advance baif the amount the South Asiatic room of the new of the draft; and as soon as this Roosevelt Memorial Hail. Pro- was paid the expedition harried fessor Henry Fairfield Osborn, the northward into Chinese Tibet to presidantofthe American Museum of Natural History, has given a London Bancare:The London Jolas@uy and Capital (fully paid 17) ► ⠀⠀ TM.MK/ Mīdisad Bank, LIE.

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The observations made during

crest is the forbidden frontier be the journey show that the geogra tween Chinese and autonomous phy of Chinese Tibet is the rezult Tibet. Hence, for a study of the of mountain formation at twodis- mountain structure of this region tinct periods. The deep valleys the expedition turned eastward to with their intermediate rankes. the peaks and glaciers between which are the most conspicions the the Mekong and the Yangtze topographic features. kiang, crossing passes from 16,000 result of mountain movements of the age of the coal measures, to 18,000 feet high.

are

Bad weather frustrated the at These ancient movementa gava tempt to explore the glaciers of the country a geographical grain Pei-ma-sban, and heavy foods trending north and south; and hampered the return march to these Indo-Malayan mountains Liking. Wide tracks of country have been formed by the excava- around Tali-fu, the former tion of valleys along the weaker Moslem capital which bad with-layers of this, grain. Mountains stood a siege of eighteen belonging to a relatively med in years during the Civil War date have been formed cop ́em- of 1855-73. were flooded owing to porary with the upheaval of the the abnormally heavy rains; the Alps and Himalays. The high caravan had to enter the city by peaks of Chinese Tibet, rising climbing over the city wall as the over 24,000 fret in height, are do north gate was closed to keep out to these later uplifts. The coigma the mischievous spirits from the of the three parallel rivers in north which had brought the ex-explained as due to their valleys cessive rains that were threaten-bazing been worn ont along clafta ing the country with famine. through which the drainage from From Tali'the expedition return-south-eastern Tibet was enabled ed by the main road across Tan- to escape through the mountain

rim of Chinese Tibet. nan to the Irawadi in Burma.