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More Than a Hondred Expeditions.

The pioneers on the last front- of Hoe what the eggs of the prehis- fior, the research workorя torio reptile, the dinosaur, were science, carry their searches to liko.

the distant stars with their giant

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A plaster cast of a clutch of the telescopes and into the normally invisible world with their high- 40 huge eggs discovered in Mon-powered microscopes, says an golia by the Andrews Expedition American commentator,

of America has been promised by "But not all the work is carried"

Professor Osborne, president of

Jon in sheltered observatorias and

The four corners of the earth aro being searched for the facts upon which the science of history, evolution, archeology, biology and others are based.

the American Museum of Natural laboratories. History, Now York, to Dr. F. A. Bather, kéopor of goology ut the.

Natural History Musouin, South Kensington. The 40 eggs are among the foldest in the world, as it is at Buried cities that toll the stories least ten million years ago since of lost,'civilizations, fossils of those mammoth dinosaurs mnanied huge monsters that reveal the the earth. As much as £1,000 was early days of the world, skulls of paid by Mr. Austen Colgate, of prohistoric men that disclose the New York, for one of the 25 dino-path of evolution--thuse are some saur eggs found in Mongolia in of the things sought by the scień- 1923 by Mr. Roy Chapman An-tific explorers.

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terior of Asia and Africa, and to Discussing the discoveries with the islands of the Atlantic and representative recently, Dr. the Pacific, to make collections Bather said:

of the fast disappearing wild, ani- mal life so that when the day "There are no dinosaur eggs arrives that these creatures are from, Mongolia in the Natural extinct, future generations may History Museun, but we have visit museums and see what thoy had for many years specimens of

once looked like. of fossil reptilian eggs, some of which are undoubtedly dino saurian."

ERA OF CHEMISTRY.

The America Museum of No- tural History of New York has eight expeditions in the field, The Field Museum of Natural History of Chicago has 14. Other expeditions bring tho grand total to more than 100.

Though every part of the world'

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Ford's "Mechanical Cow." important regions.

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THREE IN ASIA. "The first important centro is Asia. Three great expeditidons are thera.

Henry ford, it is reported, thinks that the cow must go the way of the horse and that a ma- The first is the Third Asiatic: chine manufacturing milk must Expedition under Roy Champman |repláce "bossy" just as autos und Andrews the discover of the

tractors arc replacing old "Dobbin," says an American ex- change.

The research workers on the frontier of science is hourtily in favour of the idea.

dinosaur eggs,

The second is the Smithsonian Institution expedition, headed by Dr. Ales Hrdlicke, world famous authority on evolution. "Hrdlicka! is seeking the cradle of the human race.

The third is the James Simp-

But understanding, as he does, the difficulties of the problem, ho has little hopes of realizing the son-Roosevelt expedition, headed

by Theodore Jr. and desired end in the next twenty or Roosevelt, seeking big game. thirty years..

Kermit

The next two great centres are The scientist is already learn-the islands of the Atlantic and. ing how to make foods synthetic-the Pacific. ally.

The islands of the Pacific are But milk is the most complete being explored by the Whitney food which exists. Therefore the South Sea expedition. The Blos- synthetic manufacture of milk is soin, expedition set out by the the most difficult problem of all. Cleveland Musoum of Natural All the others will have to bo History, is exploring the islande solved before, this one can be of the Atlantic. tackled.

Western Africa is the fourth

On a scientific basis, funds;ufis great centre. One important ex- can be divided into five general pedition sent there by the Field classes..

Museum is studying the habits of They are salts, fats, carbohy-the gorilla and the chimpanzee in

Belgian Congo. drates, proteins and vitamins.

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And sad to relate, the chemist's

Egypt, the site of ancient Carthago upon the northern coast

knowledge of these classes is of Africa, and the Near East arc

inast where knowledge is most vital.

For example, the salts are the least important item in the diet. Only slight amounts of them are needed.

the next three centres, Traces of ancient civilizations are being sought in these places,

The remaining.contres are in our own hemisphore. Traces of ancient Indian civilization are

The chemist knows exactly sought in wastorn United States. how to make salts in the laboration is being studied in Central The ancient Maya civiliza- tory and can furnish far greater|

qualities of them thah are ever] Ameriod..

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The chemist can also make edible fats in his laboratory. Hoj not only can make fate which are

Almost as interesting as the found in nature but ho can also world-famous West Front of Wells make a number of fats which Cathedral-which is stated to bo were not in oxistence previously. in serious need of repair-is ita]

But the process is so slow and remarkable 12th century clock, expensive that it is not of any which, although constructed from commercial importance at the primitive materials by a monk, is present time..

still in faultless working order and The chemist has even mure an irreproachable time-keeper. trouble when he tries to make Besides giving the hour, the clock. carbohydrates. The sugars are

rocords the quartors of the moon, and on the stroke of the hour a among the carbohydrates,"

group of medivaeval figures This writer, while in Paris, was broaks into life and whirl round'] shown by Professor Berthelot the and round until the last chime apparatus with which he had dies away. Thoro is only one! boun able to make minute quanti-other clock of the kind in exis ties of sugars through the action of ultraviolet rays on the proper chamical substances.

tence.

During a tost flight of the new But this process is only in un Rolls-Royce, D. Hair liner, which experimental stage.

is to fly on the Contihontal: air] ¦- The last two substances, pro- services, an old couple, whose teins and vitamins have the ages totalled 150 years, were chemist completely baffled at among the passongers. The pilot noticed that the woman was present.

He knows that proteins are pressing her hand to her car. mixturos of substances called Thinking she was feeling the ef amino-acids and he has succeeded fect on the ear drums of a quick descent, he passed her a noto say- ing that if she swallowed hard once or twloe it would ouro hor deafness. He got a note back as

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in making a few of the amino acids in the laboratory.

And about all he knows about vitamins is that they exist..

He has yet to isolate and follows: "Dear Pilot, Thank

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