New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-06
THE GIANT SQUID.

|, told a few DAYS ago in The Tribune, the main OBJ
ject of the annual exploring expedition just
finished was to obtain parts OF the uintatheriums
skeleton, so that with parts collected In previous
expeditions an almost complete skeleton OF the beast
can be mounted in the exhibition hall OF the
Museum.
In speaking of his last successful trip DR.. WORT
man said: For years the Museum has been
sending these expeditions TO the West Inc one
from which | have just returned and the preceding
one were dispatched especially TO complete the dinoc-
eros skeleton Between the dinoceros and the uinta-
therium there little difference although tho
dinoceros larger than the untatherium and
really development OF 1t. The bones OF the uinta-
therium those which We are to mount
THE expedition left on May 1. 1t was composed or
o. A. Peterson. Walter Granger and myself OF the
Museum; ]. d. Irving. OF Columbia College. and
Albert Thompson. We left the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad at Price station. Utah. We then
went into the Uinta basin, and after working
there for several months, crossed the Uinta Noun
tains and went into the Washable Basin, Wyo..
drained by Bitter Creek These are the Bad Lands
and the bottoms of ancient lakes.
1--WE HAD permits from the Secretary Of the In
terror to explore and dig on the Uncompaghre Res
ervation OF InGians. We found that they were mean
Indians. but we had no trouble with them.
1--WE explored the famous canyon Of Ladore, in the
Uinta Range. The scenery thereabout Is mag
nihcent and specially anxious 10 get pho
dicular cliffs between 900 and 1900 feet. q rather
risky descent We succeeded in getting some very
fine Photographic views of this and other scenery.
I'm the Bitter Creek Basin had some pretty
tough experiences on account OF the scarcity or
water The region is desert. the worst. THINK IN
America; sparsely covered with sage-brush. and
here and there with enough grass for the horses
We carried our drinking water with US, but some
times had 10 depend on alkali springs
I'VE collected many specimens. most OF them be-
ing found in the Middle Eocene, or Brdger beds. OF
the district / found that much-taked-of monkeys
skull in CLIFF there
"A reporter for a Denver paper came to me and
wanted to know about my trip, and told him
briefly Wei he printed lot OF trash about the
monkeys skull being the remains OF the missing
link between and the monkeys. crediting tho
statement The skull Is that OF monkey
which used inhabit that region when II was prob
ably semi-troplcal This skull is Of special I'M
portance. because II represents type that may
nave been between the lemur and the monkey. AT
all events its owner was at the bottom and not at
is not that of an extinct kind OF monkey or Of
emur. 1t represents something between lemurs and
missing link-not the missing link as commonly
land may be OF considerable Importance for
How about that yarn which sp SAID you had found
tale" answered DR.. Workman. I've been doing
tn E know owe the U difference between heavy fossil bone
million years old and bone only few years
old"
AS a result Of the expeditions the Museum skele.
ton builders will be able the fossil forms OF
about twenty-five extinct mammals the skeletons
OF which do appear In any other museum.
Among other things obtained by the last ex-
petition fragmentary specimens OF horses
the Uinta Mountains. The parts found are
OF great Importance as showing the de-
veopment Of the equine animal In America. There
is a long full OF fossil leg bones OF the horse,
and Of his dwarf and curious progentors, ranged
i'm order from a little bone. with toe TO a bone
with part OF the hoof attached The specimens Or.
Wortman brought home with him are OF equine
creatures lower in the scale of evolution than any
previously in the Museum
one specimen now in the Museum secured by
DR. workman, was found in small parts. The doc
tor carried sand in bags twenty miles so that he
could slft and find pieces enough TO reform tho
skull OF the progentor OF the cat tribe. the fierce
Palaeonicus Occidentalis. The upper and lower
laws were found in the Big Horn Basin. and now
they are cemented together the skull being mar.
OF this extinct car is in the Paris Museum.