The Roy Chapman Andrews Lectures: unearthing Asia's secrets in quest of "the missing link"

              The Roy Chapman Andrews LECTURES

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THE THIRD ASIATIC EXPEDITION
Unearthing Asia's Secrets in Quest of The Missing Link



A Group of Southern Mongols



Scientific Staff on Fossil Hunt Into Lands Inaccessible by Motor



Road Out of Urga.  Yaks Feeding



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Carts Mired in Road Just Beyond Kwan Yun Tang



Noon-day Rest at a Roadside Restaurant



The Staff of the Third Asiatic Expedition in the Field with Mongolian Assistants



Chasing a Wild Ass at Thirty-five Miles Per Hour in a Motor Car




THE NEWEST SEARCH FOR THE OLDEST MAN
As Told in Story and Film by Roy Chapman Andrews, Leader of the THIRD ASIATIC EXPEDITION

A Vivid Graphic Story of Mr. Andrews Latest Expedition in Search of THE MISSING LINK

With REMARKABLE STILL and MOTION PICTURES


Roy Chapman Andrews and a Giant Specimen of the Race of Genghis Khan



Mrs. Andrews and White-maned Serow



Mrs. Andrews and Two Mongol Women





A Mongol Boy and His Herd of Camel



Complete Restored Baluchitherium Skull



Preparing Jaw Bones of Ancient Rhinoceros



Shackleford Taking Movies in the Prison at Urga



The Mongolian Mongrel—Very Dangerous



Granger Unearthing an Elk Antler



The Golden Takin Just After Mr. Andrews had Brought It Down



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Photos Courtesy Asia Magazine and American Museum of Natural History





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ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS
ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS astounded the world at large and the scientific world in particular when, in hunting for the bones of primitive man in the far-off Gobi desert in Mongolia, he found the dinosaur eggs.

Mr. Andrews is the directing head of the Third Asiatic Expedition under the sponsorship of the American Museum of Natural History in co-operation with the American Asiatic Association and Asia Magazine.

The finding of the dinosaur eggs was one of the most important scientific discoveries ever made and immediately the spotlight of international scientific interest was turned upon Mr. Andrews and the forty odd men who comprised the expedition.  The original purpose of this now famous exploration was to find the earliest evidences of primitive man, or as the newspapers put it, to establish authentic evidence of the missing link.  For three years now Mr. Andrews and his party have roamed the Gobi desert and they have unearthed a wealth of important discoveries in addition to giving to the present world its first nest of dinosaur eggs.

During 1925 forty additional eggs were discovered and also the remains of a primitive human culture of the Old Stone Age were found.  Thousands of flint flakes, fire places, arrow points and spear heads were discovered, all of beautiful agate and jasper.

Because of the revolution conditions in China Mr. Andrews was unable to rejoin his field workers during 1926.  He expects, however, to get back with them in the summer of 1927, providing the warring faction in China are able to solve their difficulties.


An Imposing Caravan
There are forty-one men in the Expedition, fourteen Americans and the rest Mongol and Chinese assistants.  The caravan is most picturesque.  There are seven modern motor cars in decided contrast to the one hundred and forty-three camels, and fourteen tents.

So far the Expedition has established definite proof that ancient Asia is the mother of life in Europe and America.  This has been proved through the unearthing of fossilized skeletons of dinosaurs, the finding of the dinosaur eggs, the human cultures, and the fossilized bones of many pre-historic monsters of the Asiatic deserts.  If, during the next year, the bones of pre-historic man can be unearthed, Mr. Andrews and his party will have established the first authentic evidence of the missing link.

The Expedition has yielded, in addition to the pre-historic findings, some three thousand mammals, twelve hundred fish, reptiles and batricians, and some seventeen cases of fossils.  Altogether the Expedition has yielded perhaps fifteen thousand specimens.

Mr. Andrews has caught the spirit of romantic adventure in his personally told story, augmented with wonderful and exclusive motion pictures.  A panorama of pre-historic and modern life will be shown as it is found today in this quaint, far-off corner of the world so little known to Americans.

Subjects: (1) Lifting the Veil from Mysterious Mongolia; (2) Where the Dinosaur Laid Its Eggs.






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THE THIRD ASIATIC EXPEDITION
THE expedition is extending its researches into the fields of paleontology, archaeology, and anthropology, but is directing its attention mainly to the problem of the ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PREHISTORIC LIFE AND PRIMITIVE MAN.

The journey was hardly under way before unmistakable proof of prehistoric life was found.  They turned back the clock a few million years, as it were, and found hidden away in the rock strata, the eggs and fossils of giant dinosaurs that splashed along the edge of Asiatic marshes when the world was in its infancy; they found the hardened bones of the titanotheres, the great rhinocerous-like animal that stalked the plains—where never a prehistoric animal was known to have lived; they unearthed the skull of the Baluchithirium, the largest mammal that ever trod the earth.

Then came the finding of the primitive human cultures, the best evidences that Mr. Andrews is truly on the trail of the bones of Adam's grandfather.


Plenty of Adventure
A wealth of romantic adventure goes hand in hand with such a momentous enterprise, and Mr. Andrews has caught this spirit in his story and in his pictures.  Imagine the thrills for the Mongol peasants, the quaintly garbed Lamas in their temples, the Chinese Princes, and even the Living Buddha himself—as the quaint mixture of ancient and modern civilization—the caravan of autos and camels—wormed its way deeper and deeper in to the sanctuary of their life and plains.



Some Real Film Thrills
Imagine the quest of the real Golden Fleece of China—the rare and beautiful golden takin monarch of Mongolia's highest peaks, brought down by Mr. Andrews' rifle after days of disheartening hunt.  Imagine a race between a modern auto and the wild ass of the Gobi Desert— a 30 mile pursuit while the speedometer registers 35 miles per hour for part of the contest.  Imagine quaint Mongol villages of shepherds and their families, watching with half-startled, inquisitive eyes through the lattice work of their yurts, at the queer white men and the even stranger machines that carried them, while the ferocious Mongol dogs growled their warnings in no uncertain language.  A panorama of Life—such as it is in this out-of-the-way corner of the world—shoppers, peasants, roving brigands, Lamas, prayer wheels, innumerable road shrines, yaks hitched to carts, camel trains of desert traders—so primitive it all seems that one cannot help but feel that the rock of Asia should be the natural tomb for the oldest man.



Headquarters in Peking
Expedition headquarters are in Peking, from which various parties are working the interior of China, Central Asia, Manchuria, and Kamchatka, and particularly in the Gobi Desert region heretofore unexplored.



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