Hagen Area
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To Explore Mt.
American Expedition En Route To N. Guinea
FIVE young scientists sailed from New York at the end of November in the 65ft. schooner Director for New Guinea, where they will seek to penetrate the newly opened Wahgi-Mount Hagen region in the interior of the N.G. mainland. If successful, they will be the first wholly scientific expedition to explore the new area.
The members of the party are Adam Bruce Fahnestock, entomologist and leader of the expedition; Hugh S. Davis, director of the Tulsa Zoo, U.S.A., still and moving picture photographer; Dennis Puleston, an English ornithologist, who will navigate the schooner; John Sheri dan Fahnestock, skipper of the vessel and an ichthyologist: and another American, who will act as radio operator and botanist. They will spend six months mn the plateau, studying and photograph ing the native people and collecting speci mens of animal life.
The specimens and data gathered by the expedition will be divided equally among the Tulsa Zoo, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Brown University, U.S.A.
The schooner’s itinerary to New Guinea lis via the Galapagos Islands, Marquesas, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides, and ;Solomon Islands. After completing their work in the Mandated Territory, the party will continue on around the world.