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two skulls and a number of bones in the 

 British Museum; five skeletons of Di- 

 cynodon, the only other known skele- 

 tons being two in the British Museum; 

 and one skeleton of Endoihiodon with 

 seven additional skulls, a genus repre- 

 sented in the Cape Town Museum by a 

 very imperfect skeleton and a few frag- 

 ments and about equally in the British 

 Museum. It contains also some very 

 fine specimens of Cynodont skulls and 

 two perfect Therocephalian skulls be- 

 sides many imperfect ones, the Cape 

 Town Museum ha\ing but two as per- 

 fect and the British Museum only one 

 of small size. 



Certain of the South African skeletons 

 of the collection have been mounted 



under the direction of Dr. Broom, who 

 has spent several months in the 

 American Museum of Natural History 

 preparing this collection for exhibition. 

 Some are of massive size and gigantic 

 proportions, others are diminutive, 

 and in A'iew of the fact that all 

 were destined to extinction, we are 

 reminded of the famous lines of 

 Lucretius : 



"Hence, doubtless, earth prodigious forms 

 at first 



Gendered, of face and members most gro- 

 tesque ; 



many a tribe has sunk supprest 



Powerless its kind to gender. For whate'er 

 Feeds on the living ether, craft or speed. 

 Or courage stern, from age to age preserves 

 In ranks uninjured. . ." 



An almost perfect skull of a large Pareiasaurus, Pareiasaurus whaitsi Broom, which lived som.e 

 17,000,000 years ago. The lower jaws are larger than in most species and have underneath two peculiar 

 projections, the posterior of which resembles a small horn which passes inward. Both horns are broken 

 off from the jaw on the left side. [One-fourth natural size) 



