Science: Expeditions: Mar. 7, 1927

Be it ever so humble, there is no place like a corner of the earth never before visited by white men. So think the ethnologists, natural historians, geologists, cartographers and peepers and priers and pushers of all sorts who year in and out spend money and lives on arduous museum expeditions. Some expeditions, and their results, of late months:

Dutch New Guinea. Professor Matthew W. Stirling of Berkeley, Calif., and comrades docked last week in Boston after a 15-month pilgrimage to the heart of Dutch New Guinea (between Australia and the Equator). Under...

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