Although the Professor has been occupied with the Chair of Geology at Glasgow University since 1904 and before that held a similar position in Melbourne University and earlier still was an assistant in the Geological Department of the British Museum, he has nevertheless found opportunities whilst engaged on these duties to carry out expeditions to many and widely separated parts of the world.
More than 25 years ago he achieved fame by exploring and giving a name to the Great Rift Valley running longitudinally through East Africa. He had previously been in the Rocky Mountains, whilst his other exploits included an expedition to Spitzbergen with Sir Martin Conway, another into the heart of Australia which he led personally and a tour to report on the prospects of establishing Zionist Colonies in North Africa (Cyrenaica) and Portuguese West Africa. About three years ago he went to India as a member of the Calcutta University Mission and on the way back he revisited British East Africa for further investigations in_the Great Rift Valley.
His proposed trip to westernmost China will probably prove a more arduous undertaking than any he has been engaged in since he was a young man and so: it is to be hoped that the veteran explorer will be equal to the strain involved by the difficult conditions of travel amongst the Yunnan and Szechuan mountains. He does not contemplate a long stay in this country and it is probable that he will be engaged here for not more than three months, as he proposes leaving England at the end of March and returning in October, making the journey out ri@ Rangoon and Bhamo to Tengyueh, in Yunnan, the base of many former expeditions, where he will collect his out-
Curna's RANGES AND THE
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.