THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



IS 



evolved from a primitive form upon the same theater of zoogenic energy. 

 The most striking objects in the paleontological section, from a popular 

 standpoint, are the huge dinosaurs from the Jurassic beds of Wyoming 

 and Colorado. The most perfect specimen of Diplodocus longus Marsh 

 known to exist anywhere was secured in the summer of 1899. This 

 huge, lizard-like quadruped was about seventy feet in length from the 

 tip of the nose to the end of the tail, and stood fully fifteen feet in 

 height at the hips. Six skeletons of Brontosaurus, a still huger mon- 



GoRiLLA, Specimen Collected by 



Rev. a. C. Good. Ph. D., at Kangwe, 



Ogove River, West Africa. 



In the Paleontological Laboratory: Setting 

 UP THE Hind Leg of a Brontosaur. 



ster, have also been discovered and collected. In no instance were 

 these skeletons complete, but enough material has been secured, it is 

 believed, to admit of the restoration of a composite skeleton of Bronto- 

 saurus as well as that of Diplodocus. "Within the limits of a brief 

 sketch it is impossible to speak at length of the collections brought 

 together in the section of paleontology, but it is worthy of note that 

 the Museum contains the largest specimen of the Mastodon known 

 to exist, and with the single exception of the 'Warren Mastodon,' which 



