Science: Broken Bones

Archaeology deals with the cultural history of Homo Sapiens. Back of that comes paleontology, dealing with human or animal remains which have left their impress in geological strata at varying depths.

The American Museum of Natural History is the most fertile source of this sort of research and sends out annually a large number of expeditions. Its third Asiatic expedition has just left Peking under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, the well-known naturalist and explorer. It will prospect for six months the treasures of the Gobi Desert and Inner Mongolia, known to...

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