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but one creature that can be compared at all with it, and this would be 

 only as a child beside it. The famous Brontosaur at the Yale Museum, at 

 New Haven, is its only animal criterion of measurement. This was an 

 animal of its own kind, a fellow-creature in Wyoming, where for millions 

 of years they have laid together in the same deposit. The skeleton at Yale 

 was restored in 1879 by Prof. Keed, under the direction of Prof. Marsh. 

 Beside this monster, the largest Dinosaurs of Europe, and indeed the 

 world, have remained since its discovery as only pigmies. For years the 

 geological students have made pilgrimages to New Haven to study and to 

 marvel at its immense skeleton. This monster is believed to have been 

 70 ft. in length, and to have weighed perhaps 80,000 pounds in life. Prof. 

 Reed says that, although it is practically out of the question to give an 

 accurate idea of a living Dinosaur, he should think that the animal now 

 being restored would weigh in life sixty tons, that it had a neck 30 ft. in 

 length, and a tail about 60 ft. in length, and the cavity of its body, with 

 lungs and entrails out, would make a hall 34 ft. long and 16 ft. wide ; the 

 head of the animal is very small for the size of the body. There is no 

 building in Laramie large enough to hold it, and when taken there, it will 

 probably be placed temporarily on the campus. The work of restoring has 

 been greatly interrupted by snow, but it is being carried on as rapidly as 

 possible. For a great number of years Wyoming has been known to con- 

 tain some of the world's most wonderful fossil fields, the first discovery 

 dating back to 1858, and since 1877 Wyoming has been known to have the 

 petrified remains of the largest land animals that have ever lived. — 

 L. Small (777, Lincoln, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.). 



