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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE KANSAS
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1949
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Zoological Expedition Back From Himalayan Jungle
Bombay—(U,P)—Showing no traces of the $3\frac{1}{2}$-month slogging elephant march he conducted as head of a U.S. zoological expedition in the Himalayan jungle terrain of Nepal, Dr. Dillon Ripley described the mission as "very successful."
The tall, youthful-looking Yale University lecturer in zoology said the collected 1,200 bird*
expedition had collected table specimens, 120 specimens of mammals and several specimens of mountain fish.
mountain itself. The expedition also shot 12,000 feet of colored movie film depicting wildlife in these great mountain forest reserves and showing an entirely new view of the world's tallest mountains, 29,002-foot Mount Everest. Ripley said he felt this view of Mount Everest would afford mountaineers valuable information which could be put to use in the future.
The expedition was sponsored by the United States National Geographic Society, Yale University and the Smithsonian Institution, and had the official sanction of the Nepal government.
Official Bulletin
May 5,1949
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New Mortar board, 8:30 tonight.
Gamma Phi house.
Canterbury club, Holy Communion service and breakfast, 7 a.m. tomorrow.
A.W.S. personnel board, 7.15 to-
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Christian Science organization,
7:30 tonight, Danforth chapel.
Camp counselors training course 4 p.m. today. Myers hall. Summary meeting.
K.U. Disciple fellowship retreat,
1 p.m. Saturday. Make reservations
in student room, Myers hall.
Inter-Varsity Christian fellowship,
7 tonight, 131 Frank Strong hall. The
Rev. Alexander Allan, speaker.
K. U. amateur radio club, 7:30 to night, 210 Blake ball. Important meeting to discuss recent F.C.C. proposed changes in regulations for amateur radio.
Math club, 5 p.m. today, 211 Frank Strong hall. Mr. Hset Chang, "The Abacus."
Sigma Delta Chi, 5 p.m. today.
107 Journalism building.
Ku Ku meeting, 7.30 tonight, 105 Green hall, very important.
Phi Chi Theta, 7:30 tonight, Pine room, Union. All members, urged to attend.
Members of Snow Zoology club who plan to attend annual picnic Saturday sign roster, Zoology office, Snow before noon tomorrow.
N. S.A. meeting, 7-30 tonight, 19 Frank Strong hall.
Bacteriology club picnic, 5:30 p.m.
today. Potter Lake.
Unitarian Liberal club, 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, $721\frac{1}{2}$ Massachusetts street.
Col. Ruby D. Garrett, speaker.
Canterbury club supper and program. 6:30 p.m. Sunday, parish house.
Meeting to explain co-op methods, ideals and local organization, 7 to 9 p.m. tonight, Harmon Co-op. Everyone interested is invited.
Joint old and new A.S.C. picnic, 5:30 p.m. today, meet at Potter's Lake.
K. U.D.F; discussion group will not meet today.
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The group set out for Calcutta on the road to Khatmandu (little-known capital of Nepal) and beyond in mid-November. Natives who were employed on the expedition numbered some 80 persons, including 70 coolies, four domestic servants and two expert Indian bird skimmers.
Working through the lowlands and sometimes traveling for days and weeks in bullock carts or on the backs of elephants, the expedition reached points as high as 10,000 feet.
Referred to reports from Calcutta of a year ago which told of a dinosaur or dodo—a monstrous scaly-backed creature which was reported to be causing great-destruction and frightening tribal people in the Himalayan lynxills of the Balipara
Frontier Tract, North Assam—Dr. Ripley surprisingly, did not poohpoh the story.
that had once haunted these Himalayan foothills could not be regarded as a dinosaur for the reason that the dinosaur had become extinct 50,000,000 years ago and the Himalayan range, geologically speaking, was only some 2,000,000 years old. But, he added, he thought it could have been a giant lizard like the type found on the Island of Komodo, Indonesia.
He said he had been told all about it. But he had an explanation. He said the tribal people in that area at that time, in the course of their seasonal move from one place to another, were merely retelling a length of a thousand years.
Ripley said the strange creature
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Miss Jersild To Give Recital
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