Show bonom joined jo dmd v asia As na 0 asiatic expedition establishes existence of land connection discovers fossil field Washing washingtonian lu a report just received from peking roy chapman andrews lead leader er of the third asiatic expedition of the american museum of natural history of new york declares the existence of a land connection between asia and north america has unquestionably been established and hundreds of year years of work will be required to exhaust the huge deposits in one of the world worlds greatest fossil beyond their hope HOP mr andrews letter ays says the first month of the expeditions work Is far beyond our hopes hopel where we expected only fm fragments balents ga lents we have discovered an tal mense d deposit of large and small dinosaur bones it will WUI require many months to exhaust this region ref flon but we me have removed two partially complete skeletons tonj and parts of sei several eral others otherl this includes bejbl v vorous orous dinosaurs SO 30 feet long of the iguanodon type an and d smaller carnito oua ous species these bonea bones are at least years old ok but beautifully preserved they probably are related to european types and with our former work indicate that central asia ie Is the ancestral home of the dinosaurs which migrated to europe and america j we have discovered a skull of a giant rhinoceros like the beast known as the which although it has bias been burled for years Is almost as 83 perfect as though the animal had died a week ago the theres were previously only known in america AMerl ca deposits pull of interest we have found also remains of a giant dog like baruh carnivore ore as well as many teeth and jaws of an ancestral tapir like animal we could spend easily a year yea r a time in these great deposits but will glue them only enough time to get a few of the choicest things the exPedit expeditions lons belief that uon mon golla plia Is one of the worlds world s greatest fossil fields Is thoroughly confirmed it will require a hundred years of 0 work by many expeditions to exhaust these huge deposits i oar ur original theory of a central asian center of dispersal of the mam mallan malian life of europe and america Is rec receiving ehing more proof every day the existence of a land connection between asia and north america has un an questionably been established the expedition will proceed west ward into the central gobi desert we expect to in investigate vesti gate areas which we located last summer and to ex alore new regions 5 south oath of the altai mountains board toward chi chinese nese turkestan Turk estan and tar far to the west wesl |