The Cuban Ground Sloth Mfi/iilor„i,.-<. — The joint explorations by the Havana Academy of 

 Sciences and the American Museum of Natural History secured materials to mount two skele- 

 tons of this prehistoric beast. It was about as large as a black bear and a rather distant rela- 

 tive of the extinct Megalonyx of North America. The upper figure shows the skeleton sent to 

 Havana. The skeleton of the lower figure is on exhibition in the American Museum, in the hall 

 of the Age of Man 

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