With the Diggers

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China. The third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History found in Mongolia the skull of another dinosaur, the titanothere, besides other choice fossils.

The Fogg Art Museum of Harvard has sent an expedition under Langdon Warner, recently of Pennsylvania, to west China to study ancient and medieval Chinese art treasures, including the kiln sites of the Sung dynasty (10th century) and Buddhist rock grottoes of the 5th century. Duncan McDougall, son of the psychologist, is in the party. Other expeditions from Boston, Washington, and Chicago museums are in China, and an American archeological school may be opened at Peking, similar to those at Rome, Athens, Jerusalem. Rubbings, photographs and measurements of early architecture in danger of decay will be taken.

Latin America. The Carnegie Institute has received a five-year concession from the Guatemalan Government to carry on explorations in the Peten district, contining Tikal, perhaps the oldest of the Maya cities (200 A. D.). Dr. Sylvanus Morley will soon return to Central America to take up this work. American archeologists are in charge of the museum at Guatemala City.

A perfectly preserved mummy of an Inca chief was unearthed, with art objects in a large earthern jar, in the province of Salta, Argentine. The embalment methods may prove superior to those of the Egyptians.

United States. Indian relics, tombs, and skeletons have been excavated at widely scattered points: 1) Near Staatsburg, N. Y., skeleton and full regalia of a Munsee Indian Chief. 2) In Harlan County, Ky., by University scientists and a 14-year-old mountain girl, skeletons of 9 primitive Indians. 3) In the Burton Mound, Santa Barbara, Cal., remains of a race with remarkable tooth development — broad incisors like horses, and no cavities. 4) At Warehouse Point, Conn., bones of an Indian of large stature. 5) On the Wet River, Arkansas, implements of a vanished race with arts of weaving and carving. 6) At Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico, a great prehistoric com- munity dwelling, by the National Geographic Society, under Neil M. Judd. 7) At Mesa Verde National Park and the Rio Mimbres valley, New Mexico, a pipe shrine house, traces of a dice game, and other cliff-dwelling relics, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Smithsonian Institution. 8) In mounds at Albany, Ore., remains which indicate, in the belief of Dr. Edwin T. Hodge, of the University of Oregon, that the American aborigines, following the coast southward from Behring Straits, spread fanlike over the continent through the Columbia River gap.

In Keru County, Cal., bones of sabertooth tigers, giant sloths, and other beasts were found embedded in asphalt beds, Dr. William Bebb, of Northwestern University.

The Arbuckle Mountain area of Oklahoma contains perhaps the most complete series of sedimentary rocks from before pre-Cambrian times in America, says Prof. C. E. Decker, of the University of Oklahoma. Folding and erosion have exposed the beds, with great fossil deposits, for study.

Canada. Bones of a mastodon were excavated near Loudou, Ont., by Prof. A. D. Robertson, of Western University. The teeth are a foot long and 18 inches across, the tusks 8 feet long, the jawbone weighs 40 pounds. The animal is estimated to have weighed over 30 tons. Few complete mastodon skeletons have been found. This one may have lived before man inhabited the continent.