A NEW RESTORATION OF A TITANOTHERE 



Bi/ JV ill in III K. (Jrvgory 



ONE (;f the chief objects of the American Museum's tlepartment 

 of vertebrate palteontology is to let the pul)Hc discover that 

 fossils are not necessarily dry and unprofitable, but on the con- 

 trary full of interest and meaning. Every legitimate resource of science 

 and art is employed to clothe, as it were, the dry bones with flesh — to 

 picture the jolly ichthyosaur disporting once more in the waves, or the 

 tyrannosaur harassing his sluggish foe. 



Mr. Erwin S. Christman has recently made some very efi'ecti\e restora- 

 tions, especially those of the primitive "elephants," Moerithrriiim and 

 Paloeomadodun. Under the 

 direction of Professor Osborn 

 and the writer, in conference 

 with other members of the 

 staff, he is now at work upon 

 a series of full-size heads 

 to illustrate the evolution 

 of the titanotheres, distant 

 relatives of the rhinoceroses, 

 which ran through their 



TilanotluTi' skull and model of full-sizi' head in process of ijreparation. Tlie skull is 

 first copied exactly in a clay model. Additional clay to represent the flesh is then added to 

 the outside of the skull model. The photograph shows the right half of the mo<iel completed 

 and the left lialf still revealing the clay skull which makes the foundation 



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