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...China led west of Tibet, since the country of 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...
Professor Pelliot is especially famous for his valuable collection of Eastern Inscriptions. While in Pekin in 1900, he went through the slege of the legations. Later, he was appointed by the Geographical Society and the Academic to conduct an achacological exploration in Chinese Turkestan...
Last week another merchant was stricken with natural history fever. His case was more virulent than those of Mr. James Simpson of Chicago and Mr. Walter P. Chrysler (TIME, March 8), who respectively financed but did not accompany the Roosevelt-Field Museum trip for Ovis poli (just returned from Turkestan) and the Smithsonian Institution trip for live wild creatures (just embarked for Africa). Mr. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan, manufacturer of woolens (Metcalf Bros. & Co.), is to be not only the financier but the leader of a Bronx Zoo trip to the Dutch East Indies, to the island of Komodo...
Just as the brothers Roosevelt were sailing home last week after their natural historical expedition into Tibet and Turkestan for the Field Museum of Chicago; just as the Roosevelts' head naturalist and taxidermist, George K. Cherrie, landed at Boston with photographs of bearded, turbaned Roosevelts, with wild tales of riding surly, pack-yaks, and with first-hand news of the 750 birds and 250 animals "of great scientific value" that they had collected, including spiral-horned Ovis poll (Marco Polo sheep), goitered gazelles, shaggy ibexes, shaggier Asian bears, long-haired tigers and smaller, rarer fauna, scarce or unknown...
Last week the brothers Roosevelt (Theodore Jr. and Kermit) called down from "the roof tree of the world" that they had got what they clambered up for. Their cable from Turkestan began: "Have had good success with the Ovis poli [Marco Polo sheep]. Have excellent group of four rams, besides several other specimens for the Field Museum. Are going straight to Srinagar;" that is, starting home...