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...Conquest of Central Asia go on sale in Manhattan. It is Vol I of a series of twelve which the American Museum of Natural History is publishing concerning Dr. Andrews' Central Asiatic work. The other eleven are specialized & academic-geology, topography, fossils, reptiles, fishes, mammals of Mongolia and China. The New Conquest of Central Asia recounts for laymen the lively adventures of the expeditions. It describes the nomad life of the Gobi Desert, the thrill of discovering fossils, the troubles of dealing with bandits. It is a narrative for those who must do their exploring from an easy-chair...
Last week's fighting in Jehol meant only hindrance to Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, famed digger of fossils in Mongolia. Dr. Andrews recognized the State of Manchukuo last autumn, arranged with the Regency to continue his Mongolian diggings. As soon as Japan pacifies the region, he will dart in with Dodge cars, camels and naturalists. He has closed the Peking headquarters from which he led five expeditions between 1921 and 1930 at a cost...
...plaster replica of an egg gratis, refused to pay $100 for an original aged 95 million years. But in the Orient, Chinese, Mongols & Russians decided that Dr. Andrews was getting $60,000 a dozen for the eggs, and a fortune for the big bones. When he returned to Mongolia he found grafters plaguing him at every turn. He generally bullied them out of their demands...
...ground, the gigantic Andrewsarchus, greatest of all known flesh-eating land mammals, prowled at night, and fed upon the bodies of dying titanotheres. It was a world of nightmare creatures. The high plateaus of Africa today with their open plains and sparse forests offer a convincing parallel to ancient Mongolia...
Manchuria is found to be the Three Eastern Provinces of China, whereas Japan has contended that it includes a fourth province (Jehol) and much of Inner Mongolia...