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THE HONGKONG -TELEGRAPH;

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1923.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the Hongkong **Talegraph."}

that a fine of forty shillings only (a bit stale, it is true, but re was imposed, and he was not markably well-preserved con. sentenced to one month's im-sidering that they are, roughly, prisonment as previously stated. ten million years old) and, in I should therefore be grateful addition, specimens giving a if you will find space to make fairly complete record of the life-

history of the reptile in question</ These relics range from an egg containing an actual embryo, and the skull of a baby dinosaur, to another skull, practically perfect. į

Dinosaurs and Their Eggs. this known as early as possible, as he has many friends in China and I feel sure they will be

Sir, I have read the interest-interested, ing article Facts about the Dinosaurs **

Yours etc.

appearing in your NAVAL OFFICER (RETIRED)

Canton, Oct. 19th, 1923,

issue of the 19th. inst.. and note that you have made the following reference to my letter in the South Chiar Morving Post of the 16th, inst." In a recent letter to the S. C. Morning Pos, Mr. Tre Tsan-tai rast doubt on the report- ed discovery of these skeletons and eggs.

Kindly permit me to point out that you have misconstrued the meaning of my letter. I have

two and a half feet long. Various new types have been dis [covered as well.

The egg, which are from six to nine inches long, were evident- ly laid in the sand in nests ofj 10,000,000 YEARS AGO. | five to nine, and left to be hatched by the sun. Directly Jabove.

of these nests were found the remains of a grown dinosaur, suggesting that they might have been freshly!

FOSSILS OF DINOSAURS

AND THEIR EGGS,

In a special section of this issue laid when the natural catastrophe

never doubted for one momentitures taken of an exceedingly, ther and arrested their develop of the Telegg will be found occurred which killed their mo the discovery of skeletons and eggs in the Gobi desert. What important -cientific discovery; ment. They were probably while

I doubt and doubt strongly is the made by the Third Asiatic Ex-foriginally, but have darkened to belief that these little tabi desert edition of the American Museum a rich amber yellow, though dinosaurs are este dinof Natural History, under the the texture of the shell itself

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work on the Mongdian platean. their work systematically and and this time ir labours have been thoroughly and let no materiali remarkably fruitful

and no fact escape them. The

Ihave studied the characteristics of the geological strata in which the skeletons of these monster-

As far as man can judge. There whole of next gear is to be devot- have been found, and it is

rmed this earth between tened to work in the Museum by all opinion that there has been twi

and twelve million year ag the members of the expedition. lifeage" viz

sonte giant pawhistorie creatures. In 1925 they will return andi (a) The age of monster reptilia in the early days of evolution, zesame operatheis in the field. forms, such as the different long before mankind such as What further revelations will classes of dinosaurs, and ww appear play had been result from these opérations can reptile-birds (Odontornithesised to even, the most remote fonly be runjecnireil. (b) The age of giant mammalian inkling of *keti

forms, such as the mammoth,;

primitive civilisation. One type, of these

Din wauz, which has been "res

mastodon. Baluchinezium." long-extinct monsters was the elephant. etc.. and prehistoric)

Antediluviani man and the constructed." chiefly in the different animals connected imagination, from remains found with him and his times.. in different parts of the world, The life of both these "life" Andrew's expedition, how- was suddenly destroyed by twoever, has had the most sensation. great cataclyem, and is proved a surce- imaginable, for not by the position and formation of only have several practically the skeletal deposits. The incomplete skeleton of dino-air- terval of time between these tw.heen found, but also their eggs.

"life-ages" must have been con It seems an impossible feat-to

siderable. In describing

the

throw one's imagination back ten,

· Lex deposits and fossil remains

million years, to a period of time of the Gobi desert of the Mungu when the whole face of the globe an platean. Mr. Boy Chapman Was different to what it is today : Andrews, leader of the Third

when Seas existed where there

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Ye-terdur answer: The blind man started with 41) pencils. The first man, buying)

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*Con Asiatic Expedition, is reported tinents where there are now seas have said:

Twenty-four school boys wera | "Mongolia not only is the oldest" prehistoric time, when, for in a dormitory of nine nåms, are f continent in which terrestrial de-aught we know, the prist bestial ranged as shown above, three in Posits have been preserved. but ape-like ancestor of humankind zum with the professon (X)) there is in Mongolia an enormous, hud

(will be noted! heen evolved. In the centre. get extent of such deposit which But through al those long that the mages bemed four ear- remain untouched. It is one ofuzes, the ancient rocks and id each containing sing the world's greatest fossil fields, hand of the desert hire held bgs, as indicated by the arrows, A large part of Mongolia is like their relics, to be unearthed The professor. without leaving a gigantic layer cake, with the now and be beheld by marvelling his own room. would look into Fossil scattered through

generations of our era. raisins and different layers con-1 taining the remain- of life at different periods. Near the hot put it, after interviewing him.)

As a northern contemporary tained nine bogs, all was well. tom i

The big, however, frequently the dinosaur layer Mr. Andrews' Further

story combined slipped out, and at wher tim the

Lager the zest of an explorer's advent-brought in their friends. On four: of mammalian remain-

and oring with the romance of dis-urcessive nights, the dormitory remains of animals that develge foveries that bring fre-hand contained 29,48, 32 am! 95 boys:

小 ed long after the dinosaurs had thrilling contact with the age, yet the professor Sound only nine died out."

This layer cake formation of

Among other sensations, the in each corridor, due to the way the strata of the D of the Gobi holding in hi- hand an

Sterviewer had the odd one of the boys rearranged their ader.) desert has been due to the up-which was half hatched when thi-

egg How did they do it? heaval of the Mongolian Plateau entinent of Asia was itself, su and the turning of the great basin-peak, in an embryodic state. of the Gobi into a vast juland Fal

It had been ascertained in the one half 4200 and giving back 10.) by the flood-waters of the previous year that there werejleft the blind man with Diluvian Tidal Wave (B. C. 234*, fossil of one importance to be second cu buner bought one-third] the drowned animals, etc.. being found at Erbilen, but nothing was of that number 10, and gave! swamped and entombed in the expected even to approach the back, leaving the blind man successive deposits of mud richness the great fossil quarry The third person bought half (!1), Le, thereby accounting for the that was opened up. wonderful pockets"

Numerous land gave back 1. which left the of mixed remains of great dinosaurs and blind man with his find stock of skeletal remains, and other several partly complete skeletas pencil. palaeontological and geological were unearthed and it was here this problem is to work it back- The best way to solve puzzles. The dinosaur fossil bed that the leaders of the party first wards from the 1 pencils. of Montana and Dakota of Northglimpsed the theasure of stress America present "similar char-that lay before them. acteristics and puzzles.

All this is convincing geological riches of the Central Asian fil "Capt." Fre Walters. A evidence and proof that the world tell came when the expedition Englishmag well-known to Fre- has already experienced two great moved some two hundred miles quenters of circuses and "freak" Jife-destroying cataclysm, and further westward to an Biocene museum the "Blug Man." that the skeletons and eggsdeposit to look for trace of a died recently of heart disease in discovered in the Guld desert rather majestic beast called the Bellevue Hospital. New York. cannot be ten million years old. Titanothere, a mammal which An autopsy revealed that not and it explodes the Darwinian dis-ppeared some million of years only was he blue as to the kin Evolutionists' theory of the "con- ago, and whose remains had of his whole body but that his tinuity between the ages."

I shall be glad to have the America and once or twice in the were of the

hitherto been found only in brain. heart and other organs His opinions of other scientists and Balkans, Mr. Andrews and his colouring was found to be due to

Pame hug. geologists on this interesting colleague had high hopes of Argyris, or silver poisoning, be- subject, as we should all con- securing a skull of this creature lived to have been contracted in tribute our little bit" in the or perhaps two. When they dis- the first place when Watters, 40 pursuit of light and truth, and for continued their operations at the years ago, worked in a. the reconciliation of Science and spot selected they had exhumed mine in Australia. Religion.

Yours, etc.

A second realization of the

and packed no less than twelve. They were consequently in the TSE TSAN-TAI.highest of spirits when they re- sumed their journey westward in the direction of Ulan Nor.

Hongkong, Oct, 20, 1923.

Naval Officer's Case.

They arrived here after many vicissitudes, and eventually, on ing to lack of supplies. they had to return, leaving the field of their endeavour late in August. However, their discoveries provi- ded full compensation.

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FIRST FIND OF EGGS. In the case of the dinosaur,

Sir--With reference to the publication na page 5 of your issue of Monday, 15th October, of the paragraph headed "Naval Officer Sent to Gaol," I have for example, it was believed that much pleasure in informing you this creature laid eggs, but no that I have received a letter from proof of the theory was obtain-

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of the case.

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