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EVOLUTION 



August, 1929 



TWO EXPEDITIONS STUDY 

 APES IN AFRICA 



Two scientific expeditions from Am- 

 erica are now in Africa studying the 

 apes and primitive man, in both body 

 and mind. One, sent by the American 

 Museum of Natural History and the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons of 

 Columbia University, includes Henry 

 C. Raven, Associate Curator of Com- 

 parative Anatomy at the Museum, with 

 extensive field experience in Africa and 

 the East Indies; William K. Gregory, 

 Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology 

 at Columbia and author of "Our Face 

 from Fish to Man" and other works on 

 evolution; J. H. McGregor, Professor 

 of Zoology at Columbia, authority on 

 the anatomy of apes and man, and E. T. 

 Engle of the College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, specialist in endocrinology 

 and physiology. 



They will study problems of man's 

 evolutionary history and of his physical 

 welfare in the future. On the medical 

 side, studies will be made of posture 

 and faulty mechanical adjustments, of 

 the endocrine glands, of reproductive 

 organs and processes, of blood tests 

 and parasitic conditions. They hold 

 that medical progress must be built 

 upon broader knowledge of the funda- 

 mental laws of life and health, upon a 

 better understanding of the origin and 

 functions of the structures of the 

 human body. More specifically, the 

 purposes of the expedition are: 



1. To bring back primate specimens 

 for thorough anatomical, physiological 

 and embryological studies under favor- 

 able laboratory conditions. 



2. To make motion pictures and 

 photographs of aboriginal tribes. 



3. To procure complete adult speci- 

 mens of different species of gorilla, 

 previous specimens of adults having 

 been limited to skins an.d skeletons. 

 Because the gorilla closely approaches 

 man in body structures, this feature is 

 of outstanding scientific value. 



The second expedition, headed by 

 Harold C. Bingham, research associate 

 of the Institute of Psychology at Yale, 

 is working in the Belgian Congo under 

 the auspices of the Carnegie Institution 

 and Yale University, largely on prob- 

 lems of ape psychology. Motion pic- 

 tures will record the individual every- 

 day life of the African mountain go- 

 rillas in the reserve set aside by the 

 Belgian Government for their preser- 

 vation. Plans call for a whole year in 

 the field. 



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The Calf Path 



Sam W-\lter Foss 



One day through the primeval wood 



.\ calf walked home as good calves 



But made a trail all bent askew, [should, 



A crooked trail, as all calves do. 



Since then three hundred years have fled, 



.^nd I infer the calf is dead. 



But still he left behind his trail. 



And thereby hangs my moral tale. 



The trail was taken up next day 

 By a lone dog that passed that way. 

 And then a wise bell-wether sheep 

 Pursued the trail o'er hill and steep; 

 And drew the flock behind him, too. 

 As good bell-wethers always do. 

 And from that day, o'er hill and glade, 



Through those old woods a path was 

 made. 



.\nd many men wound in and out. 

 And dodged and turned and bent about. 

 And uttered words of righteous wrath 

 Because 'twas such a crooked path ; 

 But still they followed — do not laugh — 

 The first migrations of that calf. 

 And through the winding wood-way 



stalked. 

 Because he wabbled when he walked. 



This forest path became a lane 

 That bent and turned and turned again ; 

 This crooked lane became a road. 

 Where many a poor horse with his load 

 Toiled on beneath the burning sun, 

 -And travelled some three miles in one. 

 -And thus a century and a half 

 They trod the footsteps of that calf. 



The years passed on in swiftness fleet, 

 The road became a village street; 

 .And this, before men were aware, 

 A city's crowded thoroughfare. 

 And soon the central street was this 

 Of a renowned' metropolis ! 

 .And men two centuries and a half 

 Trod in the footsteps of that calf. 



Each day a hundred thousand rout 

 Followed the zigzag calf about, 

 .And o'er his crooked journey went 

 The traffic of a continent. 

 .A hundred thousand men were led 

 By one calf three centuries dead. 

 They followed still his crooked way, 

 -And lost a hundred years a day ; 

 For thus such reverence is lent 

 To well established precedent. 



.A moral lesson this might teach 

 Were I ordained and called to preach ; 

 For men are prone to go it blind 

 .Along the calf-paths of the mind, 

 .And work away from sun to sun 

 To do what other men have done. 

 They follow in the beaten track, 

 -And out and in, and forth and back. 

 -And still their devious way pursue. 

 To keep the path that others do. 

 They keep the path a sacred groove. 

 .Along which all their lives they move; 

 Rut how the wise old wood-gods laugh, 

 Who saw the first primeval calf. 



Ah, many things this tale might teach — 

 But I am not ordained to preach. 



