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...Burma was difficult to travel. It passed through the ancient province of Gandhara, where it touched the western culture left haphazard by Alexander's armies and the traders who followed. It then bent eastward through what is now Chinese Turkestan, and finally, constricted by the Himalayan Mountains and the Gobi desert, debouched into what is now Kansu province...
They recalled that in 1919 "Little Hsu" performed the miracle of marching 10,000 men across the Gobi Desert and the Mongolian steppes to Kalgan and Urga, where he deposed the so called "Living Buddha" (Hutukhtu) and blasted the power of numerous Mongolian...
Asia. Speak of digging in Asia and you think of Roy Chapman Andrews. After another year on the uncivilized side of the Gobi Desert, he is on his way back to the American Museum of Natural History with plunder from Mongolian beds where "the fossils were so thick they almost interlaced." Paleontologist Andrews shares the view of many a scientist that Mid-Asia was the birthplace and distribution centre of mammalia. His chief finds: many more fossil dinosaur eggs (two years ago he fetched several dozen); several baluchitherium (early rhinoceros) skulls; an unknown two-horned fossil, seemingly a primitive giraffe...
...experiments on the longevity of seeds. The greatest record so far established has been with seeds of the lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). These seeds were taken from the dried-up bed of a lake in Manchuria. The lake-bed had been covered with loess, seolian deposits of dust from the Gobi Desert. The depth and stratification of the deposit enabled a rough calculation of the age of the seeds to be made. The minimum age was set at 120 years and the probable age between 200 and 400 years. The seeds were germinated and the plants are now growing in tanks...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Because I succeeded where all others had failed in discovering the Polynesian fatuliva with its square eggs, the red-pepper bird which flies upside down to keep its stomach cool, the hard-boiled eggplant of Gobi, etc., I was chosen this morning to discover the undiscoverable and unscrew the inscrutable in the Teapot scandal...