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Glimpses of our National Monuments

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  • OUR NATIONAL MONUMENTS 19 regarding the road approach to the monument should be made by the tourist in near-by towns. John M. Thorn, of Hulett, Wyo., is custodian of this monument. DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT In no other part of the world has there been found such a deposit of dinosaurian and other prehistoric reptilian skeletons as have been taken from lands embraced in the Dinosaur National Monument in northeastern Utah. Prof. Earl B. Douglass, of the Carnegie Museum, at Pittsburgh, is credited with the discovery of this most remarkable fossil field in 1909, and since that date until 1923 the Carnegie Museum has been at work uncovering its fossil remains. Last year the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Utah continued quarrying work, obtaining excellent material. Taking down the skeleton of a dinosaur Perhaps the most remarkable prize secured was the complete skeleton of the largest Brontosaurus known to science—" the Apato- sauros Louisae," as it has been christened in honor of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie. It is 100 feet long and 20 feet high and stands in the Hall of ATertebrate Paleontology in Pittsburgh. Probably in life it weighed 20 tons. Compared with such aii animal the largest elephant would be as a dog to a horse. Altogether more than 400,000 pounds of material, including bones and matrix, have been taken from the quarry, and many skeletons, some of which are practically complete, have been secured. There has been very little duplication with the result that many strange and gigantic animals that inhabited the earth in the dim past have been made known.
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