London, Mar. 24.
Mr. John Walter Gregory, Pvofessor of Geology at the University of Glasgow, is shortly setting out or an expedition to southwestern China.
He explains in the "Daily Chronicle" that apart, from collecting zoological and botanical material his object will be to throw light on the climatic changes-which control the migrations of animal and plant life. He desires especially, to seek a solution to the conflicting theories regarding the relations of the Himalayan and Indo-Malayan mountain systems, in the first place that the Himalayan line continues, across southwestern China to northeastern Asia, and in the second place that the eastward continuation of the Himalaya mountains is blocked by a solid) mountain mass in southwestern China, and is deflected through western Burma and Sumatra, thence eastward along the southern margin of the Eastern Archipelago.—Reuter's Special Service.
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