The Expedition wil then proceed into Inner Mongolia, which has not been touched by previous. expedi" tons led by Me. Andrews, The trip will cross the trails of the. lata Sir Francis Younghusband and of Mr, Sven. Hedin, now in, Eastern 'Turkestan, 'If we find anything," continued Me, Andvews, "it will be 20 old it won't be very like a man but very tape-like, showing human characters. 'The fest implements vot the old stone' age to be found in. Asia. were Found in the Ordos desert by the French Jesuit priests, Licento and Tellhard, Wo have also found piements of meanderthal several hundred miles north of this, showing that meandorthal nan lived in the Gobi desert 150,000 years ago. So while carrying on the search for very early man we shall also looking for the remains of man at later stages of his development.
He said. the expedition's theory of the plateau had so far proved trug of the lower animals and by induction it should prove true of man.
Asked why he looked in the desert Me. Andrews said the Gobi hhsd not always been desert. had been an avid plateau sparsely forested and inhabited by animals common to the plain. They hoped find. man but i they did. not could" hardly fail to find. many things which would help to com Blete their story of general "Asian evolution.
The foreign personnel of the edition is as follows:—
Me. Toy Chapman Andrews (2006 legit), leader of the. expedition.
"Walter, Granger (chit pale one tologiat), isecondinscommand, of the Sine stitution ay chis. Boader, the pecan Afusetn F National ists ayo of the AMAR irr Eerakene Spoct {zeoog the. Now York University:
Sie "Aianso Pond Carchsologst), of the! Copan Auscumn, '5"ns Shackelford "(photographe alternately dry land and sea-bed, the plateau had remained dry and life had evolved without the interruptions it experienced in Europe and America, Mctie ts stan? ese pees can coo, de The Age of Humanity He said that, with the majority of scientists, he believed that man must have evolved on land that Pg. Matai £0 a ae. A vgs en ale was flat, "arid,.sparsely forested ind temperate in climate, conditions giving him a healthy straggle for existence. These conditions existed in Mongolia to-day and. had existed Tue tax op ohcens and duly snot bythe Chi ante Sound f $800 #4 one a increase of $80,000 over last year, says the Chinese press
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