Expeditions at Work in Widely Separated Parts of World Stockholm, Feb, 26.
A number of interesting reports have recently been received from Swedish exploration expeditions abroad.
'Dr, Sven Hedin's expedition, the biggest of its kind that ever entered Asia, goes through the Chinese and Mongolian deserts exploring arhieological, meteorological, geologic cal and other scientifically' interest ing conditions, It is now approaching Hamt, in Sinkiang, according to press reports just published. "A. wealth of material has been collected, and the observations, davies, and. geological and archaeological finds will shortly be sent by caravan to Peking. The spirit of the ex-' Pedition, although composed of number of different nationalities, is excellent, and in spite of the cold winter continuous progress is being made, Dr, Skocld, of Lund University, has left for Russian Turkestan and the Pamier district to investigate the ethnographical and linguistic problems of Central Asia, Dr. Nilsson and Mr. Ocdman of Stockholm University still carry on their geological research Mount Elgon in the Kerya Colony in Africa, whence they report important discoveries of pre-historic Inkes and fossils, Mr, -Moberg, a well-known Saharan explorer, will soon continue his earlier desert explorations by starting a new expedition down to the Sudan and Equatorial Africa into arts that are hitherto ethnographifally unknown to Boropean scien tists, Dr, Clu Ricts, a botanist of Upsala University, hes just returned from New Zenland, where he claims to have found that,, most probably, New Zealand must have been con. rected, vid Antarktis,. with the South American continent and thus with the northern half of the globe, Judging from certain botanical and eographienl indications.
Mwo other Swedish expeditions to the shores and islands of the Pacific, one to Kamitchatka and another to Samoa nnd Fiji, have resulted in interesting collections of plans and various observations, The ethnoxenphical researches of Dr. Granvik and Mr. Axchan, of} Lumd University, during a two years stay in the Mount Elgon district of Africa, have be of rear value ethnology, De, Granvike has un taken to lecture on the results the Universities of Vienna, Be and London. Several cannibal and wild tribes "were visited by. these two Swedish explorers, who on one occasion had a narrow esenpe from death in a cauldron—Reuter.
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