Story of a Monster Fish 7 



poles, blocks, and sand, could move and handle 

 such a heavy mass that the ancient Egyptians, 

 with millions of laborers and endless tons of 

 sand, could with nothing more than such simple 

 tools have erected the pyramids. 



The specimen when boxed weighed nearly 10,- 



000 pounds. I sent it to Dr. Dreverman of the 

 Senckenberg Museum at Frankfort on the Main. 



1 shall never forget the effort I made to induce 

 him to give up the specimen, or take another in 

 its stead. A day or two after I received his ac- 

 ceptance of my offer, I received an offer from Dr. 

 Brock of the Victoria Memorial Museum. He 

 wished me to mount the specimen in Ottawa, and 

 offered me double the price I was to receive from 

 Senckenberg for the unmounted specimen. But 

 it crossed the Atlantic. The last message I had 

 of it, before this awful war cut off all communi- 

 cations, was that the head had been prepared and 

 it was the best of which there was any record. 



These two specimens which my party of three 

 sons and my self have added to science, prove 

 conclusively that the duck-billed saurians were 

 great swimmers. My readers will remember that 

 I was coming to this view slowly. In describing 

 the splendid specimen George had found in 1908, 

 on page 276 of "The Life of a Fossil Hunter," I 

 said "I have no doubt that the animal with lungs 

 expanded to their full capacity often swam across 

 streams of water." I was reluctently giving up 

 Marsh's and Cope's ideas; they believed these 



