A party of six German scientists arrived at Hongkong on Monday week, and they were to leave at the end of the week in th Peiho for the German possessions in the South Seas where they.expect to remain for about two years. The expedition is being sent out from the Hamburg Scientific Institution and Professor Dr. Thilenius is in charge.. It is a scientific expedition and its members will indulge in research inethnography, zoology, and bo-tony: and other studies may be undertaken in later years. The old maseams possess arms, implements and idols from the primitive men of other conn-tries, and it is hoped to make " complete collection in the South Seas before the people there, with the advance of civilization, forget how these things are made. The steamer Peiho, of the Hawarg-Amerika line, chartered for the expedition, is about 900 tons and will steam 10 knots, She is fitted out thoroughly for this purpose. The vessel will be under Captain Vashel, who was formerly an officer in the South Polar expedition of the Gauss. He has two officers and three engineers, and Chinese as sailors. The staff of the expedition consists of Professor Dr. Fulleborn, the well-known East African explorer, and assistant to the Institute for Tropical Diseases in Hamburg; Dr. Duncker, of the Natural History Museum of Hamburg; Dr. Esche, the Chief of the Museum for ethnog: Muller, another specialist in ethnography. A special collector is KO. Hellwig, who has lately gi the Museum for ethnography a collection from the, Bismarck Archipelago. Mr. H. Vogel, the famous artist and painter, accompanies the expedition, and will take photographs and cinematograph pictures, and wake sketches, and wa er-colour drawings of such subjects as are desired.
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