"We have in the party a member of the Mongolian Cabinet, the Minister of the Interior," said Mr. Osborn, ''so that the laws and requirements of that government may be satisfied. The plainsman have an unearthly fear of the Bolsheviks and they would not believe that we were an American scientific party, who did not have commercial schemes for a foundation of our project. Their fear of the white man, and the fact that they could not comprehend altruistic motives, led us to ask one of their officials to accompany the party throughout the entire itinerary, to see for themselves what we were doing and what we would find. We further promised them that any discoveries of natural resources, minerals, oil, ete., would be communicated to them before the knowledge reached the outside world, and with such an arrangement they were fully satisfied to the best, for they now understand our motives.
"In the month of June,"' added the speaker. We shipped to the Museum in New York more than. two tons of fossils, all of whicl relate directly to the work. we are doing on paleontological lines. The party has completed its sury: of Outer Mongolia aad will take up its workin new fields, when ready. Recently we received a quantity of fossils - from the Yangtze River taken above the Gorges. These are smaller than those of the northern types, but all have a bearing on the pri-initive life of central Asia, and further they go to prove the theory expounded by m*in 1900 that this portion of the world was the home of man. The roof of the world. is more and more becoming _recognized as the anthropological study house for science, i and if. the present expedition continues to make such prolific finds, substantiations of our theory are but a matter of course."
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