Show ANDREWS EXPEDITION FINDS DRAGON BONES IN CHINA I Remarkable Discovery Follows Trade I In Fossils to Be Ground for Medicine Pelting The The fame of ot dra tIra dra gon on bone medicine among the Chinese of the Interior province of 01 has bits led to remarkable discoveries erles ot of remains of 01 long extinct animal forms by u member of the Central Asiatic expedition under Roy Hoy Chapman An Andrews drews Brews Drawn by reports of a trade i In dragon bones which has flour flour- flourI flourished flourished I Isbell along the middle Yangtze for tor seven ln or eight centuries Walter Waiter Grall Granger lr palt paleontologist of the expedition expedition expedition tion Investigated III and found fossils of live thirty live I e to fort forty animals of ot till the Pleistocene n age e Granger disclosed his discovery In where the expedition stilt stIll Is waiting for u chance to get to Kal Kal-gan Kal gan an and the Gobi d desert erl to continue Its search for tor traces of primitive man Civil CI war at present bars any move move- movement movement movement ment along the railway from leking i ito to Kalgan an although the American scientists scientists arc ready really for their next e ex- ex ex excursion Into the upland wastes of ot Mon lon Mon Mon- Mongolia golla golia Among Grangers Granger's most notable dis- dis discoveries dis discoveries erles co among the dragon on bones were skulls of the an mal which resembled the mammoth ot of a n giant tapir and a n rhinoceros n a complete fossilized skeleton of a n gaur or East Indian bison and fossils ot of about thirty five other extinct forms torms Including ancestors of many present present- present day day animals Near on the Yangtze Granger learned farmers In the slack season fenson were digging literally tons ot of bone fossils out of mud tilled pits In a limestone ridge running sixty to seventy miles along the river rifer and selling sellin these dro dragon on remains to be pulverized for medicine Dealers bought hought them for shipment to Chung Chung- king the most Important river port portor or of the The rhe made ronde In the pits formed by action of water on the rock are arc often otten 75 73 to feet deep Granger er said suld The salvaged bones are dried cleaned denned and plied piled In n a cor cor- corner corner corner ner of the farmers farmer's house walting for the denier dealer to come along |