Show is S. S PARTY WILL VISIT COLOMBIA Exploration of Little Known Country Will Be Made by Smi Smithsonian ls nian WASHINGTON Oct 20 AP AP- AP The systematic effort of American science to explore South America took another step today in the de deParture departure departure de- de from the Smithsonian In institution institution tf- tf of a botanical expedition to Colombia The party is headed headed-by Ellsworth P. P Killip botanist of the national with Albert Smith as collaborator Colombia Is the only South American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean country with a shore line on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ocean institution officials said in explaining explain explain- ing the purposes of the trip It oc occupies occupies occupies oc- oc a strategic position at both ends of the Panama canal covers cover an area two-thirds two again as large as Texas ranks next to Russia as the source of the worlds world's supply o of platinum is rich in oil and minerals exports much coffee and y yet t lesis less les lessis lessis is known of it than any equal area of Africa the traditional dark con con- t. t The vast hinterland where th the headwaters of the Oronoco and th the Amazon find their sources in an anun unknown unknown un- un known jungle and the three ranges range of the Andes which creep across the western quarter of the country and include areas never visited by bya a white man are the particular ob objectives objectives objectives ob- ob of the Smithsonian party I |