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THE DISCOVERIES IN MONGOLIÄ,
DR W. 2. ANDREWS' COMMENTA,
THE BOXER INDEMNITY, PROPOSED TEXTILE SCHOOL
Mr. J. Rankine Finlayson, Manchester, in a letter to The Truers,' anys;--Ther Io commenting on a dispatch from its cannot but be grave doubts as to the Peking correspondent, describing the wisdom of using the Boxer Indemnity recent discovery by the American exped-money to set up a school on the lines tion under Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews advented by the Textil Machinery of a great fossil held in Mongolin, Dr. Makers' Assumiation. The Executive" of C. W. Andrews, F.R.S., of the Natural the China and Far East SectionTM" of History Museum, South Kensington, the Manchester Chamber of Commerts made the following statement to a repre- some time, age gave a careful considera- sentative of The Time:
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og to the whole question of the disposal The Natural History Museum of New of the Boxer leninity Fuls, and sub- Yerk has made three expeditions into itted various suggestions to the Foreign Northern China. The last, the raport alice. The second suggestion was
follows:- which has just appeared, was in 1999. It has beet wonderfully successful in dfs-) rovering a whole series of vertebrate fossils of various ages ranging from the Cretaens, in which the great dinosaur remains cecur, up to the middle of the Tertiary (the Miocene), in which nume XDU8 mammalian remains have been found, some of very great interest, The dinosaurs from the Cretaceous include some forms like that of the iguanodov, which were vegetable feeders, and others of carnivorous type. There are also re mains of crocodiles and turtles.
The great interest of these discoveries in China consists in the fact that they
That a proportion of the funds coull ho usefully devoted to the establishment of technical college in North China with a industries, such as afforestation, agricul view mainly to develop existing native tare, etc., so that the Chinese may be helped to produce, market, we sell the Products of their country to the heat advantage.
The idea of a technical college in North China will doubtless receive universal support, but a "Textile Technical School" will not, I imagine, make the same appeal nor receive a like support.
EFFECT ON LANCASHIRE.
seem to show that the dinosaurs of! Mr. Charles Watney, Parliamentary re- Europe and North America, and possibly presentative, Textile Machinery Makers' of Africa, may have spread out from Association, writing to the Financier, some northern palearctic regions." Dino-| states :-)
saurs Are at present known to have I am glad to see that you do not share] existed nearly all over the world, but the opinion that the establishment of a the grent deposits so far discovered are textile technical school in Shanghai will in the United States and Tanganyika affect in any way the Lancashire trade, Territory. Dinosaur remains are, how-You are in very good company! This is ever, also found in Europe, South Ame- not the view of the cotton industry in rien. Madagascar, South Africa, and this country, it is not the view of the Australasia.
British in the Far East, who are largely
The peculiarity of these fossil reptiles dependent upon the prosperity of the is that they usually attain gigantic size Lonshire import trade. At the meet- and display immense variety of form, sing, a few days ago, of the Bolton and that it is difficult to imagine any dine District Master Cotton Spinners' Asso- saur type that may not actually beciation, it was stated that an Englishman, discovered; "the weirdest, most astonish now. an American citizen, who hnd: ing shapes are found. Some of the Enst trivelled extensively in China, had ex- African forms disinterred by the Ger-pressed to a member of the Association mans before the war are probably the only quite recently the opinion that there largest land animals. One of them, was room for 10,000,000 spindles in China, gigantosaurus, must have been nearly to spin cotton grown in the country, with twice as big as diplodocus, the North cut interferring with the finer portion America form, a cast of the skeleton of of the industry in which Lanenshire ix which is mounted in the Natural History interested. There are only now about: Museum, and measures 84ft in length, 3,500,000 spindles in existence. The scheme so that, if the proportions were the same. for the establishment of the school sin the to train the gigantosaurus would have been 168ft., Shanghai only intends or fifty-six yards long.
Chinos in the use of machinery espe Of course, it is not certain that the cially fitted to spin their own coarser proportions were the same, because of cloth from their native grown cotton. It the extraordinary variety in type of will never in any way affect Lancashire's these creatures. However, the humerus, ports, and it will probably help to the bune of the upper arm, of gigante stabilise the condition in China, and saurus is more than twice as big as that thereby santly benefit the purchasing of diplodocus. A cast of this gigantic power of the community. bone is mounted in the Natural History Museum. It is 7ft. lin. long the corres- ponding hong of diplodocus being only, 3ft. 3.
INDIA'S WILD ANIMALS.
Since Tanganyika Territory is now
3.263 PERSONS KILLED IN 1992. under British confrol, it is to be hoped] that an effort will be made to collect some in the mortality from wild animals and Interesting statistics are available show- of these interesting monster reptilian re- mains for the national collections. We venomous snakes in India during 1902. know that they exist there in great! The total number of persons killed by abundance, and that the only problem is wild animals in British India during 1909 the packing and transpert of the spinnered 3.263 against 3.300 in the pre- mens already excavated, and the unearthis year. Tigers were responsible for 1,603 deaths, leopards for 509, wolves for |ing of other specimens.
460, bears for 10h, elephants for 55 and The mammals discovered by the Ameri hyenas for 9. The deaths from tigers can expedition in China are also of were the highest in Madras, from leopards great interest. One of them, a gigante in the Central Provinces and Berar, from rhinoceros-like form, is, perhaps, the wolves in the United Provinces, from largest land mammal, the skull being as bears in Bihar and Orissa, and from much as early oft. long. The first re-elephants in Assam. Of 122 deaths from mains of this animal were found in other animals," about 90 are assigned Baluchistan before the war by Mr. to wild hears and pigs and 25 to croep- Forster Cooper, and are now in the diles and alligators. Natural History Museum but, unfortu As in the previous year, the "highest nately, he did not find a skull. The number of deaths from all wild animals animal was probably larger than the occurred in the Madras Presidency (901). elephant and with a long neck. It was The Central Provinces and Berar, Bihar found in the. Lower Miocene beds. Its and Orissa, and the United Provinces distribution seems to show that thews coming next in order. There has been a Tertiary deposits were very widely decrenee in deaths in the majority of the spread in Central Asia. Other interest- provinces over the previous year's figures, ing forms have been found by the Ame but in Madras, Bengal. 'Burma and Assam rigan expedition. the scientific work of the figures show a slight inerense. which is being watched with be greatest: sympathy in England, where it is recog nized that the results will be most in portant,"
The mortality" from sinke bites among human beings rose from 19.490 in 1921 to 20,000 in 1999. The increnscs occurred mainly in Bengal the Punjah, Bihar and Madras, Bombay, the United Provinces, Orissa and the Central Provinces, but Burma and Assam have reported de-
crenses,
Many interesting dinosaur remains same of similar type to those to which I have already referred, have been collected from the Wealden beds of the
During the year 23,268 wild animals Isle of Wight. One of the most exten- were destroyed, of which 1.700 were sive collections was made by the Rev. tigers. 6.198 leopards, 3.188 hears and W. Fox, curate of Brightstobe, a portrait 165 wolves. Ant of Rs. 184,535 wan of whom has recently been placed in the aid in rewards, noninst Rs, 2,10,622 in gallery of the Natural History Museum. the previous year. The number of snakes It shows Mr. Fox developing one of the destroyed incretaed from 67.985 to 58,270, vertebre of a great dinosaur, Ornithi and the rewards paid for their destrue. which he discovered in the neighbour tion were Rs. 1,250, as against R. 1,937 hood of Brightstone. Mr. Fox's geolo in the previous year. gical collection is one of the treasures of Natural History Museum..
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The new naval programme is therefore for eight 1,000-ton cruisers, seven-suh- marines, of which four are cruising sub- marines, and four river monitors, to lại employed in Chinese waters. In addition, Crews will be necessary for the two new | ships, the West Virginia, and Coloracio, which will be ready in the autumn, and a stim of money is to be sought to pro vide for the training of reserve aviators in view of the keen competition in this direction in other countries.„„„Central Nepa
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