Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 1 | Savants Will Hunt 'Lost World' in Grand

Savants Will Hunt 'Lost World in Grand Canyon th tempi, interesting wmiu which, through comparison with animals on the mainland, may throw much light bn the speed of the processes of evolution," Secretary Sec-retary of the Interior Harold L. Ickee was quoted in an International Interna-tional News Service dispatch. . No permanent trail will be established, es-tablished, for the park service prefers pre-fers Shiva tempi to return for another age to its original isolation. Seeking to learn whether a lost world" exists, a party of scientists will make a daring attempt to seal the 7000-foot high Shiva temple in the Grand canyon this fall. A party from the American museum of natural history will leave New York City September 10 in th hopes of finding signs of prehistoric life or prehistoric life itself, said a dispatch from Washington, Wash-ington, DC. Shiva temple, named for the most popular Hindu god. is six miles southwest of Bright Angel point and occasionally tourists have reported seeing fires atop the sheer walled plateau. The expedition will seek to determine de-termine whether, any prehistoric 'a animals still remain, whether aborigines light the fires or whether merely remains of men and animals are there. Naturalists hope that hitherto unknown species may have evolved on this "island" during the thousands of years of isolation isola-tion since the raging Colorado cut deep enough to trap animal life. Rugged terrain prevents landing land-ing an airplane on the temple top, so scalers, directed by WaJlar A. Woods Jr. or tne American Geographic society, will inch their way up the cliffs. Ladders of rope will be dropped so H. E. Anthony, curator of mammalogy mam-malogy for the American museum, and his explorers can ascend. Water and food will k dropped from an airplane or hoisted by rope. "Both the American museum and the national parka service be-autre be-autre ahar anay be-aurvivors an a -