remembered and confirmed that story and added that the hero of it 

 was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose murder at Sarajevo in June 

 1914 started the World War.. 



Weithofer also told me of an undescribed skeleton of Dinotherium 

 (a fossil elephant then known only from the skull) in the Vienna 

 museum. At Boscolungo, where we arrived about 4 p.m., we found 

 the evening uncomfortably cold, snow banks all around us, though it 

 was the i6th of June. That evening and nearly all the next day we spent 

 over the remarkable fossils from Samos. 



I should like to record here a conversation, which, very soon after- 

 wards, became of some importance in the history of science, when 

 questions of priority of discovery were becoming acute. Among the 

 fossils from Samos was the skull of a creature which had been named 

 Chalicotheriiim and which, as the teeth showed, was clearly herbivo- 

 rous; it had been assigned to the same group as the rhinoceroses. There 

 were also the feet of a beast with huge claws, Ancylotherium , which 

 was believed to be allied to the Pangolins, or scaly anteaters, of Africa 

 and Asia. When, therefore, Forsyth Major declared his belief that these 

 two apparently wholly unrelated animals were one and the same, 

 Weithofer and I were scandalised and energetically dissented from such 

 a heresy. However, we were anxious to learn Forsyth Major's reasons 

 for his belief and asked him to explain. He replied substantially as 

 follows: "No one had ever found the feet of Chalicotherium, or the 

 skull, or teeth of Ancylotherium, yet they always occur together in the 

 same beds; where you get one, you get the other." I admitted the force 

 of this, but remained unconvinced. 



Some weeks after this conversation, I was in Paris, where the eminent 

 French palaeontologist, M. Filhol, invited me to come to the museum 

 and see the new fossil mammals which he had been excavating at 

 Sansan in the south of France. Among these was a complete skeleton, 

 with the bones in their natural connections, which completely con- 

 firmed Forsyth Major's interpretation; the skull and teeth were those 

 of Chalicotherium, while the feet were those called Ancylotherium\ 

 In a paper which I wrote shortly after my return home, I was happy to 

 bear witness to Forsyth Major's independent discovery of this most in- 

 teresting relation, thereby causing him to write me a very grateful 

 letter. 



I returned to Florence and picked up the ladies and we then made a 

 hurried trip to Venice, Verona, Lake Como and, by diligence, over the 

 Spliigen Pass, from Chiavenna to Chur. Hurrying across Switzerland to 



