Ernest Schafer Brings Down Ten Takin in Half an Hour: New Hsikang Expedition News TTachienty, Sept. 3 Ernest Schater, a" young "German scientist and hunter, arrived on the order on August" 30, rested on 'August 2h left Tachienla on 2 for the district of one'
on" the' right. bank. of the Ring, and on August 25, shot, what undoubtedly a record, tem takin 79 falf'"an hea," Eines! "Schafer" Connected with second Dolan" Ex-petition fo Hslkang and wes with the rat Mkang, Expedition in 1881 He Is 5 remarkable hunter, a pot snot, a een "sport, and a cained logs. The members of the last Expedition were Gordon Bowles, fiysieal "anthropologist, Dr Huge elias, amnia one Gain grapher,, Ernest Schafer, zooloand Brooke Dolan, the cader of expedition, This: gent the ty Includes Mr, Mavian near. who tso Ived'on the fronder for many Yea has. travelled extensively out border, and who te acting ax official Imerpreter, Chinese and Tivetan, to the expediio.
Mr. Duncan lived for many years in Batang, arriving. there in 1981 with shelton, in 1927 he hade-a most Feinarkabie Journey. through Yunnan a Upper Burma to. Fort Hertz tressing the Yangtze the Mekong. the Saiween, and the Itrawady. faith rh his wite and three chil and only discovered after the terrible Journey had been made that a French}. Brest had crossed the road before Dolan and Gnieser travelled south] through Yunnan and Annam, travers Ing ® bit of interesting country between Jurong and Mlenling, Dr. Welgolds and Mr. Schafer travel down through the Yellow Lamas country to Yunnan, hence to Burma and down the Irrawady to Rangoon trid back to Germany, Gordon Bowles went north through Danba and some of the Jarong states, returning by Chengtu to the coast: The expedition was sponsored in part by the Philadelphia Academy of Science and did some excellent research work along different lines. This has since ome out in book form and shows the tremendous amount of scientitc ground covered by the expedition.
Dolan is somewhat interested in malluses and has. T believe, made an excellent collection, "However, high! altitude malluses, are comparatively unknown, so there is a wide field for this "department in the present expedition, In 1981 Mr, Dolan found! two genera new to China, namely, Atinia, and a sub-genus, Sinaenigma of the genus Rahula. The Tibetan frontier, with its peculiar geography cal position and geological formation, should prove a most interesting field for the collection of mollusca. The precipitation and the melting of] enormous quantities of snow give a wet and soggy zone of some 3,000]
And here are found large num-of what Duncan describes as snails and of which he is making
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