EXTINCT ANIMALS 



Fig. 155 shows the peasants at work, protected 

 by a shed from the fall of stones from above. 

 Fig. 156 shows some of the nodules as yet 

 unopened lying in the laboratory of the geologi- 

 cal professor at Warsaw. Fig. 157 shows a 



Fig. 156. — Professor Amalitzky's work-shop in Warsaw, 

 showing skeleton-holding nodules ready to be broken 

 open and others already under preparation. 



number of skeletons of the huge but harmless 

 vegetarian Pariasaurus which have been cleared 

 out of the nodules and set up on iron supports, 

 as more or less complete specimens. Of course 

 it is not possible in every individual to get out 



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