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Stanley's companions) as one of a pair which he had 

 weighed in Central Africa. It was in the possession of 

 Emin Pasha when that unfortunate gentleman was 

 "rescued" by Stanley and Jephson. After the subsequent 

 assassination of Emin, his ivory treasure found its way 

 to Zanzibar, and this tusk being part of it, was sold and 

 brought to London. 



A real new monster of great size is the carnivorous 

 reptile described by Professor Osborne, of New York, as 

 Tyrannosaurus. There is no mistake or exaggeration 

 about this report. The specimen is in the New York 

 Museum, and has been described in detail and drawn to 

 scale by Professor Osborne. The skeleton stands up like 

 that of a huge bird or a kangaroo on the two hind legs 

 as does that of the vegetarian reptile Iguanodon. The 

 Iguanodon and the Tyrannosaurus are of about the same 

 height, namely 17ft. But the new monster has enormous 

 tiger-like teeth, twelve on each side of the jaw, above 

 and below, and the jaws are three feet long, whilst the 

 whole head is broad and short. Iguanodon, on the 

 other hand, has been long known from English and 

 Belgian rocks, and can be seen in Cromwell Road. It 

 has a beak like a tortoise, and the small teeth of a 

 vegetable-feeder. Both animals had very short front 

 limbs or arms, but in Tyrannosaurus these are really 

 ridiculously out of proportion, according to more familiar 

 standards, for the whole arm is not bigger than one of 

 the toes of the hind foot. This new giant carnivorous 

 reptile is found in rocks of the same age as our green- 

 sand and chalk in Wyoming, U.S.A. It preyed upon 

 huge vegetable-eating reptiles, the remains of which are 

 found in the same strata, and have been reconstructed. 



The mere size of these extinct reptiles is a very 

 natural cause of wonder and admiration. At the same 

 time, it is well to remember that the body of the largest 

 African elephant is as big, or very nearly as big, as the 

 body of the biggest of these extinct reptiles. Some of 



