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Show SEARCHED THE ODD CORNERS OF WORLD ! Xew Yoik. Nov. 23 Roy C. Andrews, An-drews, one of the explorers employed hy the American Museum of Natural History here, has just returned from i a fifteen months' search of odd cor-j ners of the world. The result of his work Is a consignment of seventy tons of specimens, the bulk of this consisting of whale skeletons from Hie coast of Japan. He brought with him a collection of photographs of whales and other mammals and picture pic-ture films which he took during his travels I Mr. Andrews pursued his work with rifle and camera through the Philippine Philip-pine Islands, the Bashi group, the Fl- ji Islands. Borneo, Celebes, along the 1 coast of Formosa and Japan. He killed kill-ed a large number of specimens of the native birds, reptiles and mammals. mam-mals. He collected also a quantity of ethnological material. The remainder of the time he spent on the coast of Japan, living at the whaling stations, capturing many variety of the whale family and preparing the skeletons for shipment. |