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...days we saw no other human being in the Alti Mountains," said Professor Peter Sushkin, of the Academy of Science in Petrograd, and leader of the Russian Zoological expedition into that descried area in the Russian Empire, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
Professor Sushkin, who is a distinguished looking Russian, speaks English with only a slight accent although he left. Russia only last September. He was describing the dangerous trip into the Alti which yielded scientific results of the greatest importance to the world...
...reply to a question about the number of the specimens and plates which he had collected, professor Sushkin replied calmly, "Oh, we collected about 8,000 files and beetles of various sorts, 2500 bird specimens and over 900 photographs...
Professor Sushkin made light of the difficulties entailed in bringing the specimens to the United States. "That," said Professor Sushkin, "was not difficult at all. But to get them safely away from the Alti mountains, that was the task. There were no roads, only narrow trails, surrounded by swamps which extended up to the snowline. It was very difficult to collect and transport those specimens. Many of them were formerly entirely unknown to the world, and I have added to museums here and in England some of these specimens we obtained in the Alti mountains...
Professor Sushkin went on to describe some of the animals which the expedition encountered...