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THREE EYES.

PLESIOSAURUS 'AND ITS

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It is an unpleasant thought: but it has long been a commonplace to geologists. A writer in the "Mun- chester Guardian" says of the War wickshire animal:-

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established that they really were eyes of a sort.

The Geologist and the Machine.

The main wonder of the new But they were not, in the ordin-specimen, say the authorities; is ary sense, cyos: they wore eyes that it was found at all. "Our that saw nothing; eyes without main hope of finding specimens THE SENSE OF "ABOVENESS." lena and incapable of receiving nowadays," they say, "is contred any image. We are not presented in quarries and quarry-men." But Sciontists have a habit of keep-❘ with the queer, unimaginable pos- there is a certain antagonism be- ing their beat fairy-tales to them-sibility of seeing in two directions tween modern engineers and geo- selves. It was only the announce at once. The third eye, as the logists. In the old days 巋 man of the discovery of | "Manchester Guardian” said, would with a pick and a spade would an excellent ́example of the be no help in focusing. (Dif-stop when he found a bone, and, like skeleton of a plesiosaurus in cult to concentrate with a Hamlet, turn it over: there wasn the Red Triangle Quarries of Hor-stream of light pouring through always a chance that his curiosity bury, Warwickshire, that spread the top of one's head!) It was not, would lead him to the nearest abroad the secret that in a certain as was flippantly suggested "ear- museum armed with his bone.) period of the world's history it ried, like a spare wheel for use in But the quarrying-machines

The of to-day - have was fashionable to wear three eyes accidents and emergencies.”

no curiosity. in one's head.

third eye was apparently never They take huge bites of the earth, anything more than "a primitive { akeletons and all, and very soon it organ faintly conscious of light. is all so much cement, In this case The plesiosauri, like most of an unusually intelligent workman their contemporaries, crawled on stopped the machine, and that their bellies. They found this corner of the quarry where bones The strange thing is that it has queer nervous susceptibility to were cropping up was worked by three eyes, "The head is trian-light on the top of their heads use- hund. The proprietors of the gular and has a third eye on top ful as a defence against possible quarry showed considerable public of the skull. Many more spec attacks from above. They knew spirit, and were at great pains to tacular queernesses

less when there was a shadow-when excavate carefully-and preserve the Meult to imagine. For the it went dark above, and acted on

remains. The result is that the third eye is not only unusual; the warning. It seems an oddly skeleton, which is to be presented; it has no apparent purpose. A feverish existence, with this per

to the Natural History Museum, second eye is 'easential to the petual consciousness of "above has a backbone complete from the process of focusing, but oneness" full of terrifying shudowa tip of the snout to the end of the; cannot see that a third would One wondera whether four-dimen- tail, and is altogether sixteen feet add anything to that power.. Thesional geometry would be easier to long-Ex plesiosaurus was nn aquatic understand if we still had this beast, and possibly found a third third eye, of which the vestige.rc- eye useful for keeping a watch mains in our "pineal gland"? And on the surface of the water. those branches of futurist art, The quotation only served to which try to see round the corner illustrate the wonder and horror and emphasise what they call that attacks the lay mind when the "simultaneity"? Ought we to re- skeletons hop out of the laboratory fer them to the plesiosaurus? [cupboard. For, whereas it has been stated in several newspapers that the scientists are as excited as we are about these three eyes, it now now turns out that they have known all about it for forty years.

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Even worse: it seems that there are beasts living n muddy life somewhere at this present moment who have, at any rate, the mains of an eye on the tops of their heads. "Probably they still

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it to a certain extent," said (to an unscientific correspondent) Dr. F. A. Bather, the Keeper of Geology at Natural History'

Museum.

"Eyes of a Sort," -Scientists had been puzzled for if a century by the curious holes, rather like the socket of an eye, which they found in the top of the skull of prehistoric amphibians. It was not till the eighties, when Sir Baldwin Spencer began to study the similar holes in the top of the skulls of the most primitive living reptiles, that the fact was

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