The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1922-11-03
Minute Brain.Box In FNe-Foot
Skull Found in Asia. Says
Museum Expert.
DUG. Up. N NURSERY Of MAN
eaIsontosoeiss of American Msssora ss
Natural History Gives sssis for
Belief rhAt Great Desert
cYaalsc Hunsan Race.

New YoFx---Ths monster with the
skull Eve feet l0ag, who~@ remains
wsre found % tbs Gooi desert. ~as not
distinguished BY mental power aud
probably bad q Colossal eating saais-
nent bot o minute traln-box, accord
Ing ~ Df. w. D. Matthews palseatoio-
glst Of the American Museum VI Nat
aral History.
This giant. knswu ~ the Balachf
thasium frOm tbs fact that In coly
previous remains were discovered Ia
Baiochis,an, india. bias been represent.
sd previously By few leg bones and
other fragments VI Q skeleton, bat tbs
nrs skull On record IL that found b.,
the museum party. From the LEG
bones II was identified 40 big naIa'
mai VI the rhlnoceros tribe. about The
height Of big elephant Unlike the
shortlegsed rhlnoe~rps OF TO-DAY, tie
bulky Baiuchltherum stood on hong
legs like those VI an elephant In
order 10 be able TO browss and roet
from that height II needed head and
neck OF Tremendous size and length.
such "a the elephant would have 20
have II II were no, luckily provided
with a trunk
An Orphan Among EossiIA
The d!nosaur remain. found BY the
party are probably more iiisporsatit
than that OF the Bsluchitissrium. az
cording TO Doctor Matthews although
40 detailed report Ga them has yet
bssn cahled to this eoGauy. Tas
Raluehllhcriuu has no near relatives
among tho tosslls found On the Amer
lean continent w to the prsseat II 10
believed that many new dinosaurs have
been discovered In the rayinss aud foot.
hills of thu Gool-
This. rsxtan .Qf central AGa y be
leyed BY the museum party to DO the
nursery Of mos Of the animals aud
the original home Of the human race.
Some evidence that II was the grea,
breeding place Of ma mmais has bevn
found. but no boaea, skulls, relics or
tools have NJ far come ~ light to lndi
cate that this VAS the part VI tae
world where the human race nrst de
veloped. The Gobi dessert 10 a region
VI continental proportions and II may
require hundreds OF years Of work By
hundreds Of expeditions to master the
secrets about the early life u man be
Ilsycd to be cn,ombed under It's hills
and plateaus aud which may DO ex.
posed along its water courses,
III. belief that man first rose In this
region has long hs'n held on many
grounds, but the theory has been great
" elaborated by 1T Henry Fairfield
osborn, president nf the museum. Doc
Tor Matthews and other American
scientists
The argument which they have
worked out In great detail il tha, the
row, sheep, deg, cat ana horse appear
10 have been domesttcatssi tn the ,iohl
l1s bfatr nhsSw r., ts- te;eass 'is'-:se
" many racs that ,hcy cplae
rom this region The East Indian ira.
,l,ton, with scu,e evidence 10 supper,
L. IL thst India was populated by meu
,run the north The Chluess tradition
= that the Chinese came from the
sest. The early settlers in the Mesil !,
'erranean AMI Mesopotamia are be
loved TO have originated IN north cen.
raj Asia This rvgtou. now called the
lob! dessert Is nGt L dsssrt' m yh~ cvnY |
,,nn SENSE ~ tho word, hut A partially |
Inhabited region resembling Montana |
Ind Wyomlng II was probably very |
iiTereut ten thousand. or hundred |
housani, cr few million years agu
The highest types ~ the human raee