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...sends out annually a large number of expeditions. Its third Asiatic expedition has just left Peking under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, the well-known naturalist and explorer. It will prospect for six months the treasures of the Gobi Desert and Inner Mongolia, known to be rich in fossil flora and fauna, including mastodons and mammoths, which are believed to have wandered eastward from their source in central Asia. Popular expectations with regard to the " missing link " of human evolution and the site of the "Garden of Eden" are hardly likely to be realized, however...
...Other fossil discoveries which are now attracting scientific interest...
...human skeleton was found near Dallas, Texas, in a fossil bed believed to be of the Pleistocene (ice) age (about 300,000 years ago). Many authorities think it belongs to a more modern type...
...Excavation for a new hotel in Washington, D. C., unearthed a subterranean cypress swamp containing fossil diatoms, minute plants which lived in the Pleistocene age. " Oldest inhabitants" are arguing with the scientists that the swamp existed in their boyhood, but the evidence favors its antiquity...
Fragments of two fossil trees discovered in the Devonian rocks at Gilboa, New York, by members of the Hugh Nawn Contracting Company of Roxbury, in the course of work on the New York City water-supply system, have been presented to the Geological Museum by Mr. Hugh Nawn '10, and will shortly be put on exhibition...