Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-23
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The American Museum of Natural
History is making restoration by
sorting and piecing together the parts
of twenty-five individuals that we col
lected. This giant rhinoceros stood
more than l3 feet high at the Shout
ders. Its prehensie lip could reach for
foliage % feet above the ground
The Baluchitherium would have
been more effective on Barnum and
Bailey circus handful than was
Jumbo. This colossal elephant could
reach up 26 feet. but that was because
he had long trunk A picture showed
Jumbo on the sidewalks of New York
reaching up to third-floor window for
peanuts. If Barnum had had the
Balnchitherium, it would not have
been necessary for him to exaggerate.
We found dinosaur eggshells and
whole eggs. Picking up dinosaur egg
8 inches long and inches around, we
thought OF the mother reptile, who.
millions Of years ago, covered her eggs
with sand and left them to be Matched
by the warm sun. A sudden wind
storm must have buried them.
On seeing just the tip OF great bone
exposed, we exCavated - which IS
always exciting and found the
enormous skull of a titanothere.
Another time we discovered the white
skull of reptile later identified as the
ancestor of the Ceratopsia "a group of
great horned dinosaurs known only
from America. Our lnnumerable
specimens, many of them new to
science, were sent 10 museums.
BY the series OF rocks we collected.
the earth history of North Central
Asia is outlined. From these and our
findings of ancient fauna, the past of
Central Asia is being reconstructed.
Certainly much of the mammalian life
of the world developed in Central
Asia
In evidences of historic man, our
discoveries we're less satisfactory. We
once hoped we had come upon a
skeleton of Pleistocene man, but our
dreams were shattered in the cXcava-
ton. 1t was burial. probably only
1000 years old. However, we did dis
cover traces of prehistoric cultures.
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Elements - hammer stones and
scrapers of the type contemporary
with Neanderthal man. From the diff
ferent cultural horizons found, it
appears that primitive man has lived
in Mongolia since the close of the
Plcstocene period.
Who shall say that these wide
spaces have not yet to yield their
most marvellous secrets? 1t is almost
certain that rich fossil basins lie in
western Cobb. Who will explore them?
Intensive exploration belongs to our
era because of modern transportation
developments. No man has been able
to climb to the summit of Mount
Everest. but in droning plane men
have sWooped over its crest.
In the Cobb desert. motor cars
enabled us to cover 5000 miles in five
months. BY caravan alone, this ex-
petition would have taken ten years.
An air observer can make out
ancient ruins shrouded by giant trees
and dense vegetation. Therefore Colo
mel Lindbergh piloted arChaeologsts of
the Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington over large UNEMPLOYED Maya
areas.
BY means of the aerial camera,
which detects much that cannot be
seen from the ground, exact plans of
vanished towns are traced. In Eng
land, 0. G. S. Crawford took air
photographs that led to the discovery
of Roman town and trenches. For
centuries farmers had plowed over the
streets and trenches 1t was found that
crops were greenest and most luxuri-
ant where the ground had been dis