Extinct Reptiles 



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entire skeleton of a creature about eight 

 feet long. 



Large numbers of these nodules have 

 been transferred to the laboratory of Pro- 

 fessor Amalitzky, where they have been 

 opened and the contents studied. The 

 contained bones, which appear to be 

 the remains of reptiles of Triassic age, 

 have been carefully extracted and put 

 together in skeleton form by means of 

 iron supports. Several skeletons have 

 thus been revealed of the extinct 

 Pariasaurus, a vegetarian reptile about 

 as large as an ox, but not so high in 

 the legs. 



The nodules have also disclosed the 

 remains of a huge carnivorous reptile 



One of the Nodules, showing form of the em- 

 bedded skeleton ; head to right, tail to left 



with a skull two feet long and enor- 

 mous tiger-like teeth — a truly terrible 

 creature which has received the equally 

 terrible name of Inostransevia from its 

 discoverer, Professor Amalitzky. 



No doubt the vegetarian herds of 

 Pariasaurus were preyed upon by the 

 carnivorous Inostransevia in the old 

 days — now hundreds of thousands of 

 years ago — when they roamed at large 

 over the territory now known as north- 

 ern Russia. 



A brief account of Prof. Amalitzky's 

 discoveries is given in a recent work on 

 "Extinct Animals" by Dr. E. Ray Lan- 

 kester, of London, England, from which 

 the above facts have been extracted. 

 (Published by Henry Holt & Co., New 



York, 1905.) The whole book is of 

 fascinating interest. It is written 

 largely in untechnical language, and is 

 plentifully illustrated by photographs 

 and drawings of the remains of extinct 

 animals. The author's name is a suffi- 

 cient guarantee of the excellence of the 

 work and the reliability of the informa- 

 tion. H. A. LargsIvAmb. 



AMERICAN GOODS IN CHINA 



A NUMBER of photographs have 

 been sent to the Bureau of Manu- 

 factures by Special Agent Crist showing 

 the condition of the average American 

 case or bale of goods on arrival in Tien- 

 tsin, China. Three of these photographs 

 are given on pages 1 74-175, by courtesy 

 of the Bureau, and also a photograph of 

 some Holland bales that arrived at the 

 same time. Mr Crist reports that from 

 the place where he took the photographs 

 at least 500 more American bales in 

 equally bad shape were to be seen. Those 

 in best condition were bound with iron 

 straps, while the rope-tied bales suffered 

 the most. 



EVIDENCE OF RECENT VOLCANIC 

 ACTION IN SOUTHEAST ALASKA 



THE following interesting geograph- 

 ical information is extracted 

 from a report by Mr Fremont Morse, of 

 the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 who was recently engaged in the de- 

 markation of the Alaskan boundary line 

 across the Unuk River, and is published 

 here through the courtesy of Mr O. H. 

 Tittmann, Superintendent of the U. S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey. The Unuk 

 River flows into Burroughs Bay about 

 95 miles north of the southern boundary 

 of Alaska. The locality described is in- 

 land at the boundary and about 30 miles 

 from the mouth of Burroughs Bay. 



The largest tributary to the Unuk on 

 the north side, between Burroughs Bay 

 and the boundary, occupies a valley of 

 considerable size between boundary 

 peaks 6,200 and 6,500. This stream is 



