Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-11 | Page 6 | Scientists Plan 2-Year Cruise for Museums Which Cannot Afford to Send out Their Own Expeditions

Scientists Scientists Plan Year 2 2 Year Cruise for forI I Museums Which Cannot Afford to K Send Out Their Own Expeditions f Will Spend Two Years in Visiting Vis i lUng Strange Lands for f Specimens r By LORENA HICKOK NEW YORK June 11 P W JP scientists whose who e chief object Is U to too o obtain specimens for smaller museums muse muse- urns that tha canno cannot afford to send ou out outi i their own expeditions will sail from J New York Jul July 1 on a year two-year cruiser cruise t. t to off far-off places places' r The group will be known as the th Lan Tay-Lan expedition and Its Itinerary includes Porto Rico to which It ha has been Invited cd by Governor Theodore Roosevelt HaUl Haiti the Galapagos Samoa Society and other other oth oth- er cr Pacific islands Australia Ne New Caledonia the New Hebrides Dutch New Guiana Borneo Java Sumatra Sumatra Suma Suma- tra Slam French Indo Cam Cam- Cambodia bodia southern China and the Hawaiian Ha Ha- Islands The cruise will end at Los Angeles In 1933 i 4 Captain Harry Carpelan formerly of or the Russian Imperial army andr and r an fl explorer and engineer whose career ca Ca- reer reci has led him from the Arctic to the Congo and Amazon rivers willbe will willbe I be the director TO COLLECT SPECIMENS Specimens will be collected for the Field museum Chicago the Museum Muse Muse- Urn um of Los Angeles Amherst college and a number of other smaller mu which have not yet e been se selected se- se led In tho the group will be anthropologists anthropologists anthro anthro- a zoologist an ornithologist ornithologist ornit-holo- ornit gist an Ichthyologist and an ocean- ocean Sound motion pictures some of or them In colors will be made of natives natives natives na na- na- na tives and animals There will also be painters and a sculptor In the party The expedition will vil travel on a foot four masted schooner with an auxiliary motor The equipment will ill also Include an airplane whose pUo has not yet et been selected Laboratories Laboratories Lab Lab- oratories for the scientists and photographers photographers photographers pho pho- I are to be fitted up aboard the ship I The expedition will cost about and Is to be financed through John C. C Fell Pell Co NewYork New NewYork small of York ork bankers by a group millionaires whose names are with wIth- held TO MAKE l TRIP Among those thos who will make the trip ere are Edwin B. B Child ChUd portrait and landscape painter his son Sargent Sargent Sargent Sar Sar- gent Child ChUd a sculptor who was formerly for for- merly with the National museum in Washington Herman T. T Beck an anthropologist representing the Los Angeles museum Jack Young formerly formerly formerly for for- merly secretary of or the Chinese legation legation legation lega lega- tion in Washington a zoologist and linguist representing Field museum Chicago Don Taylor with 14 years' years experience in French Indo China and the East Indies cartographer and expert In the preparation of or specimens for preservation Jack Smith motion picture photographer photographer pher member of or the American Cinematographic Cine Cine- society Sidney D. D Lund of or Hollywood Cal Cat sound technical tech tech- expert John Ta Taylor lor explorer collector and writer and Dr Charles De Dc Mey cy former Inspector general Inthe in inthe inthe the Philippine islands for the U U. S. S health service a specialist In tropical I cal cat diseases and also a painter and linguist Captain Victor Slocum will willbe willbe be master of or the ship