SEARCH FOR LOST CONTINENT.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20715, 28 November 1932, Page 9

SEARCH FOR LOST CONTINENT.

EXPEDITION NEXT YEAR. THE EVIDENCE OF FAUNA DISTRIBUTION. il'l.riEß I'ttßcS ASSOCIATION—-EX KLiJCTfiIC TELEGIIAPH—COPYRIGHT.) CALCUTTA, Xovcmber 25. A search for the supposed submerged continent between the Indian and African coasts of the Arabian Sea lull be undertaken noxt year by an expedition headed by Lieutenant-Colonel E. B. Seymour Sewell, director of the Zoological Survey of India. The expedition will aJSo investigate the life of rare marine animals supposed to exist in the Arabia)) Sea, and an attempt will bo made to capture monsters believed to Jive in mid-water, never rising to the surface or sinking to the bed of the ocean. The expedition will attempt; to discover traces of continental areas supposed to have Stretched to westward from India many thousands of years ago, the continent known to scientists as "Lemuria," the existence of Which is based on similar fauna present on the Indian and African coasts of tho Arabian Sen. [The name of the lost continent, Lemuria, is linked up with that of Lemur (Latin "lemur," a gliost), a genus which has given its name to a large group of mammals, the lemurs, which appear to stand between the Jnsectivora and the monkeys. One of the chief points of interest attaching to the group is its peculiar geographical distribution. By far the majority of the genera are confined to tho island of Madagascar (off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean); a few forms are found in the Orient, and on the African continent. Their range from Mftlaya to Madagascar has been accounted for by the supposed existence of a continent (for which the name "Lemuria" was proposed by Mr Sehlatcr) connecting those now widely-separated regions. Undoubted remains of those animals have also been found in Europe and America, as well as in Madagascar.]