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AN expedition of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has recently left Yachow in Szechwan Province, China, for a year's survey of the zoology of eastern Tibet. The party is under the leadership of Brooke Dolan of Philadelphia who, with some of his staff, has had previous experience in the western China area. Its main object is to obtain information and material, for habitat groups of typical Tibetan animals, such as the wild yak, wild horse, ammon sheep, snow leopard, Tibetan gazelle and bear; and as an aid to this end motion pictures will be taken of the wild game, which is said to be abundant on the high steppes of Kuku-nor and Tsaidam. Mr. Dolan's party is working in co-operation with the Metropolitan Museum of the Academia-Sinica in Nanking. It is gratifying to find that expeditions in out of the way parts of the world are concentrating more upon observation of animal distribution and habits than upon the unrestrained collecting which was often divorced from any sort of ecological observation.
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American Expedition to Tibet. Nature 135, 338 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135338c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135338c0