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...upon President Kraft's prediction for the future: "I do not suppose anyone else ever planned a cheese business to live through the ages . . . after we are gone, there will be Kraft salesmen trekking the veldt of Africa, braving the snows of Siberia and battling the superstitions of Mongolia-all earnestly striving to increase sales, which by that time will be far in excess of a hundred million...
...Buddhist sculpture excavated in 1924 in Mongolia is placed on public exhibition for the first time, and is comprised of some 15 polychrome statuettes of unbaked clay which were discovered in the sand-buried city of Kara Khoto. The city was first correctly identified by Sir Aurel Stein; the Fogg Museum expedition of 1924 dug there and found, in addition to sculptures and fragments of unusual thirteenth-century frescos, a tenth-century bronze mirror. This is one of the very few Chinese mirrors taken from the earth by responsible persons, and is in exceptional condition...
Central Asiatic Expedition to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews. The discoveries of this year include an extraordinarily large rhinoceros-like animal and the lower jaw of a mastodon having large lower tusks, flattened so that they have a shovel effect and measure thirteen inches across...
Andrews', Roerich's and Filchner's separate expeditions in Mongolia; expeditions on all the continents...
...Chinese archaeology in the last thirty years with the exception of prehistory, is mainly due to work done on the outskirts of China, by the Japanese in Core, a, by the French in Indo-China, by British. German, French, Japanese, and Russian missions in Chinese Turkestan and in Mongolia. The two Koslov missions of 1907 and 1922 have revealed to us the extent of the Hsi-hsia literature, in the late middle ages, today absolutely unknown, and the importance of the relations between Western Asia and the Far East via Upper Mongolia at the beginning of the Christian...