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After spending half a million dollars over a period of ten years and the dispatch of five scientific expeditions to the Gobi Desert, the Central Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, of which Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews is the leader, has been refused permission to continue its work in Mongolia by the Chinese authorities. This refusal comes at a moment peculiarly inopportune in the interests of science. The expedition was about to open up a new field of exploration, which would have been of the greatest palæontological and, possibly, of anthropological interest.
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Nationalism and Science in China. Nature 128, 469–471 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128469a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128469a0