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St.-The discovery of fossil remains illustrating the structure of new and wonderful types of vertebrates is pro- ceeding in a way which justides the hope that the main lines of evolution of most of the large groups of living vertebrates The will before long be established. Asiatic Expeditions of the American Museum 8 Natural History, on which Your New York, Correspondent reported Few days ago, have heen specially pro ductive of important results. According to as necount Published in Nature (October 24th, 1924. p. 308), these ex- peditions have fully confirmed a pre diction, made by Professor . F. Osbarn in 1990 of the Central Asian origin of the mammalian life of Europe and America. Not only has it done this, but according to the same account an equally interesting result of the American work has been the proof that the Central Asian platen was iso the centre of evolation and adaptive radiation of the great division of land reptiles known as dine-
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The dinosaurs, now completely sinct. Barometer were in many ways the most remarkable Temperature. of fossil, forma During the Secondary Hamidity Period, and particularly in its Liassic Wind Direction...
Foren and Cretaceous divisions, they formed the dominant group. They included Weather... comparatively small animals and giants Bain
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of the largest dimensions, the far ex-tightest open-air Temperature on th ceeding any other land animals known. Lowest open-air Temperature on 29th and in size almost rivaling the largest whales The group consisted of animals which walked on all fours and of others which had a bird-like mode of progres- siun on band, the body being held in a nearly reet attitude aad being support- rù entirely by the hind limbs and the Lail. Dinosaurs were not adapted to a life in the air. since their forelimbs did not assume the form of wings, but there can be little doubt that they might be at
Past partially aquatic in habits.
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The conclusion that they were largely aquatic is made more probable by the fact that the ends of some of the limb- bones are rugose, implying that the joints were largely cartilaginou pred.
unsuitable for the support arrangement
of gigantic body in the air. MR." W. 1. Mitthew, FR.S., one of the leading authorities, has pointed out the inter-
esting fact that a line drawn from
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shoulder to hip separates the lighter pars produced other dinosaurs as remarkable of the body from the heavier part, nain their way as Gigantosaurus, it is 11hough it represented the water-line. The known to have been inhabited by other were extinct reptiles, which are of unusual in- terest, as being probably close to the stock from which the mammals thein- selves were derived.
limbs of these enormous
massive and heavy, producing the effect of the leaden boots of the diver, while in other parts of the skeleton economy is show in the use of bone material in such a way as to combine maximum strength and lightness.
SMALL AND FEEBLE MAMMALS.
BRITISH MUSEUM'S ACTIVITIES
In any case, the exploration of the fossil deposits containing reptilian re mains in Africa is an object well worthy of a national institution, and it is de. sirable that the activities of the British- us in this direction should be
~Many dinosaurs--including the largest of their, fed on vegetable matter, as 16- dicated by the character of their skulls and teeth, while others, on evidence of widely known. The encouragement of a similar tape, Wer Ferocious flesh-public interest in the extraordinary rep- eaters Some of these were an large that tiles of the past may perhaps hring the they can hardly have satisfied their ralization that work of this kind is appetites except by feeding on dinosaurs necessarily expensive, If it is to be. of the herbivorous kind. The mammals, done on a proper scale, the assistance of the public is required. The funds at which were their contemporaries. were stil: small and ferble, so that the ding the disposal of the Museum are insuf- ficient, and the stccess of its expedition saurs presumably had it all their own was, and they branched out into a wide would be creased by receiving farther variety of types, some of which were contributions to the Tanganyika Fund provided with spines and other exeres which is already in existence. cences, which gave them a fantustic or terrifying appearance.
Dinosaurs were first made" known to scirnen as British animals, and a con- siderable amount of work has been done. Iguanodns, Megalosaurus, Cetio-
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rus, and other British types, gugup- den was further studied as the result of the discovery of a very gemarkable assemblage of skeletons at Bernissart, in Belgium. Many of the most striking forms have been found in North Ame rica, and the large American museuras contain a wonderful series of the remains obtained in that continent. The Mongo lian Expedition will obviously add grent | dinosaurs. ly to our knowledge of the Asiatic.
AFRICA LITTLE EXPLORED.
Africa remains bat little explored for The fossils belonging to this grop fortine of war has made it possible for as to investigate a part of that coatiu- nt known to be highly interesting, by continuing the work which was began by the Germans in Tanganyika Terri. tory. The results already obtained by Mr W. E. Cutlery the leader of the British Museum Expedition, appr from his reports to be most encouraging. He has excavated large numbers of Bones, the first consignment of which in believed an Im on its way to the Museu13). It is clear from the accounts received that he has found dinosaurs of more than one type, and it is even possible that he bas found remains of animals and birds. If this should prove to be the ens, the results of his work"
Care bound
to be specially interesting. Even if it should not be so, it must be remembered that the African routinent. has a well- established reputation na the bome of the marvellous, and unexpected. Giganto- saurus Amore correctly Torileria) itself, which Mr. Cutler is specially collecting in remarkable for its exceptionally gigantic size; but its skeleton is at pre- sent imperfectly known, and the interest of possible new discoveries is by no menos restricted to the acquisition of large bones Taking into account the wide range in size, shape, and habits known within the group, there arema to be no reason why Africa should not havej (Continued on next Column),
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