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Editorial 



n n IIK progress made in cleaning, assembling and mounting 

 the fossils from La Brea Rancho is most gratifying, and 



by September of this year we expect to present for public 

 inspection an exhibit, which will surprise even those who 

 have followed our work and which will convince the public of 

 the greal treasures we have exhumed from the zoological graves 

 of the antidiluvium past. 



Mr. Raymond I). Jewetl and Mr. Eugene •). Fischer have 

 devoted most faithful, conscientious and skilled Labor to the 

 mounting of these fossils and the excellent taste and super- 

 vision of Mr. Daggetl have furnished most appropriate and 

 beautiful desks, standards and eases for the mounts. 



At the present time, there stands in all its skeleton feroc- 

 ity ;i sabre-tooth tiger six feet two inches in length by three 

 feel in height; the gigantic ground sloth measuring fourteen 

 feet from its snout to the end of its tail standing over nine 

 feet high; a mastodon, thirteen and one half feet long and 

 eighl feet high with the cores of its tusks complete, its skull 

 being seven and one half feel in circumference; a female bison 

 eleven feet two inches in length and five and one half feci 

 high; a giant wolf, aboul the size of the present Alaska tim- 

 ber wolf and resembling in its general build the German and 



Russian Wolf; the skeleton of an A I'l'i *-;i II lion of the present 



day standing dose to the sabre-tooth and showing by com- 

 parison the greal size and strength of the latter. Work upon 

 the male bison is progressing rapidly ami. ;i1 this time, the 



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