Show DIG Die DIGn n JN MANY Y lANDS FOR JOR OlD RACES 1 wins on Top of Cemetery iri id Arizona Give Up Ancient Skeletons NEW YORK YOm March 26 AP AP- AP In la In efforts to reveal secrets of the thet h t hian race long hidden by time and to to bring new specimens of life t this country countr scientists of the American Museum of Natural His His- are working in many lands lands- S sA ertme In the far stretches beyond c cr civilization tot Not ot all the work worl done In foreign countries however for out 10 JJ Arizona Erich Schmidt of the department of anthropology has ij 11 de d valuable archeological dis s. s One Important ruin was on top of n mountain mo where an old cemetery cemetery t tery i have ave ve up skeletons of people people-of a past age At the request of Phoenix officials Schmidt examIned examined exam exam- ined a ruin there which proved of such historical Interest as to merit restoration by the city In company with Harvey S. S Ladew who financed the tho trip George H. H H. H Tate is collecting mammals and birds in Peru Argentina Argentina Ar Ar- gentina and Bolivia Dr Frank M. M Chapman curator of the department department department depart depart- ment of birds Francis L. L Jaques and Raymond Ramond Potter are In Panama Panama Panama Pan Pan- ama collecting specimens of bird life as oa representative of the American American American Amer Amer- ican tropics The party will be bea a away way six months ANCIENT BIRD LIFE Working on Maya ruins with the Mason l expedition sent out by the Peabody museum Is Ludlow assistant curator of birds lr he has reported many in interesting In- In tere Ung and heretofore unrecorded facts of existing bird life Carl arl F F. Akeley the explorer and ands s sG sculptor Is on a big game hunt in Africa for groups to be placed in intha inthe Ur the tha new African hall He has J 1 bunted three gorillas and will ob- ob t fp Vii material for the physical re reproduction re- re production of the background which Includes studies of the vegetation I cb chi or or notes and specimens of soil I rth jh East Africa Dr James P. P C i Pin associate curator of bir birds ls i. i 1 VV with ith De Witt L. L Sage and Frank who financed the expedition ex ex- ex- ex collecting birds of the sub- sub tl ical zone The They also will visit I tu volcano no the eastern edge of the Congo and through on their return A IA biological A survey of ot Porto and the Vir Virgin ln Islands is beI bein be- be in iri conducted by H. H E. E Anthony I assistant curator of mammals and C Cp Goodwin under the auspices of tho New York Academy of eres es TO GOSTO WEST INDIES When then this is completed they will willm make m make ke a stud study of the West Vest Indies to toy determine if the Islands once were were parts of a great island contI con- con tI Existing forms of life there many I of of- which require dry land tOol travel suggest the islands once joined a mainland rather than having hav hav- ing i been een raised from the floor of oft t thA sea by volcanic action tarence arence L. L Ray is making an extended trip examining the most recently S excavated excavated ruins and other othera a ar remains in Mexico in furtherance furtherance of ot the plans for the new nev l Mexican can Hall of ot Archeology p posed for erection n at the mu- mu sewn through the patronage of Mrs l I Samuel D D. Sturgis wife of Major Gf G ral Sturgis r retired tire tire-a Dr Willa Wil- Wil la tt pT G. G Van Name is collecting i ma inai ipe pe invertebrates invertebrates' near Pearl j lands Islands off the Panama coast The dl discoveries c verles of the third Asiatic exX ex- ex X r pe l JUon tion under Roy C. C Andrews Interesting and officials believe further important light on and migration of the primitive races will be revealed vf VISIT fT FOSSIL FIELDS During the month Dr William D. D l I Matthew sai sailed ed for Mongolia to visit viSt the fossil fields covered b by bythe bythe y the the- these Andres Andrews party In June the theP P Williams Putnam expedition to toG toG G to collect material for Ute tl museums museum's newl newly completed d Hall Hall- Hallof of Ocean Life Lite also will set sets s H. H C. C Ra Raven ven will head the thep p Sty ty which will include Robert RobertP P Peary y son of the famous explorer and anil Captain Bob Bartlett who commanded commanded com com- Admiral Peary's vessel on successful north pole hunt |