The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-12

ten by George Washington, February
90 1890, sold for s2S
illinois Collectors Lieense.-Charies
Clendennin, of Sangamon county, OBJ
tanned the first license issued in the
state of Illinois, permitting the TAX
ing of pathological and biological
specimens. The license was issued on
January 20, under the Illinois law
that lately went into effect, which pro-
vides that "the applicant be a man Of
good character and well fitted to col
lect birds, their nests and eggs, purely
for scientific purposes" Bondsmen
are required, and should the person IL
censed, violate the law the bondsmen
become liable for prosecution under
the game law. Clendennin is a taxi
dermist, residing in Bloomington.
Oregon Fossls.-Prof Handel 4.
Martin, museum assistant in paleon-
tology at the University Of Kansas,
Lawrence, conducted a fossil hunting
expedition last summer to the Oregon
fields and returned with one of the
best collections ever added to the
Kansas museum. Prof Martins work
was done in the John Day formations,
and he secured more than $50 fine
specimens, fifty of which were first
class skulls, representing all the ma
terial to be found in the formation
through which the researches were
made. A small party of assistants and
students accompanied Prof. Martin on
the trip, and the rest of the party,
after Martin returned home, went to
the Newport fields and secured some
geological material for the Kansas
university museum.
Studying Indian Customs-Prof.
James Mooney, of the chair of
ethnology of the Smithsonian institute,
at Washington, has been spending the
given out that he will remain indef-
nitely among the Cheyenne and Ara
and modern customs and character
ristics. Before going to these tribes
he spent some time studying the KID
| wa tribe of Indians in Oklahoma.
Monstrous Pre- Historic AnimaI-At
| the Peabody museum, of Yale univer-
sity, New Haven, Conn, an interesting
experiment was made a few months
| ago to ascertain the original weight
| when alive, of one of the great SAL
tians, the fossil remains of which were
| found in the Bad Lands Of Wyoming
! by the late Prof o. G. Marsh. An ex-
act model on a small scale, was made
| of the saurian, based upon the skele-
| ton, and using the displaced water
| test, and carrying out the computation
the original weight was ascertained
| as about 1900 pounds, or 1914 tons
| The Peabody museum, owns the COM
plete specimen of a skeleton, the hips
standing to a height of sixteen feet
| and the saurian being, from tip to til
about seventy-three feet in length. The
museum also owns part of a skeleton
of a considerably larger specimen.
| New Zealand Specimens-The gov
eminent of New Zealand not long age
| made a present to the United States
government of twelve of that coun-
rare lizards, which specimens reached
the United States on the steamship
some weeks ago, and were from there
| forwarded to Washington. According
Zealand included four HIVES, four
Maori hens, four Kea parrots, and four
| tenatara lizards All the specimens
are peculiar to New Zealand, it is said
and for this reason, if no other will
| be priced by the government museum $
| curator.
! Kansas Mastodon Remains.-Prof
c. H. Sternberg, of Lawrence, Kas.,
acting for the American Museum Of
Natural History of New York city,
purchased last month the mastodon
remains which were discovered and
| exhumed near Buffalo, Kans., in Au-
gust, 1904, by A. N. Eagle. The spe-
| cimen is said to be the finest yet
found in Kansas, the bones being in a
good state of preservation. The lower
jaw, which is thirty inches long,
shows the teeth in process of shedding
| The tusks are about nine feet long,
| having a compound curve up and out,
| and are eight inches in diameter at the
middle. Prof. M. E. Canty read a
! paper before the last meeting Of the
Kansas Academy Of Science, giving a
full account of the mastodon fine. 1t
was largely through his efforts that
these fossil remains uaro mt in q mn,