Show america 0 once honcle won cle joined asia 0 asiatic expedition establishes existence of land connection discovers fossil field washington Washing tion in a report just received from peking roy chapman andrews leader of the thaid 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 years of work will bo be required to exhaust the huge deposits in ss one of the worlds greatest fossil holds fields beyond their hopes hope mr andrews letter says tho the first month of the expedit expeditions ionn work la Is far beyond our hopes where we expected only fragments we have discovered on an immense deposit of largo large and small dinosaur bones it will many months to exhaust this his region but we have removed two pari partially lally complete skeletons and par parta t n of several others includes herbivorous dinosaurs 80 feet long of the iguanodon type and smaller carnivorous ape species c le a these bon bones es are at least years old but beautifully preserved they probably are related to european types and with our former work indicate that central asia Is the ancestral home of the dinosaurs which migrated to europe and america we have discovered a skull of a giant rhinoceros liko like the beast known to as the which although it has been burled buried for years Is almost as perfect as aa though the animal had died a week ago the theres were previously only known in america deposits deposit full of interest we have found also remains of a giant doglike dog like liko carnivore as well as many teeth and jaws of an aa ancestral tapir ilke atil animal mal wo we could spend easily a years time in these great ide deposits but will give them only enough time to get a few of the chol choicest things tile the expeditions bellef belief that mongolia Is one of the worlds greatest fossil fields Is thoroughly confirmed confine d it will require a hundred years yeara ot of work by many expeditions to exhaust these huge depo deposits our original theory of a cent central ra I 1 asian center of dispersal odthe mammalian life of europe and america Is rec receiving more proof every day the existence of a land connection between asia and north america has unquestionably been established the expedition will proceed westward into the central gobl gobi desert we expect to investigate areas which we located last summer and to explore new regions south of the altai mountains toward chinese turkestan Turk estan and far to the west |