34 C. Schuchert — Dinosaurs of East Africa. 



Art. V. — The Dinosaurs of East Africa ; by Charles 

 Schuchert.' 55 ' 



Since the discovery of Gigantosaurus by Professor Fraas in 

 1907 in German East Africa, all paleontologists and especially 

 Americans, have been closely following the work of the expedi- 

 tion sent out by the Geologic- Paleontologic Institute of the 

 University of Berlin under the direction of Professor Branca. 

 In his beautifully illustrated book Doctor Hennig tells us in 

 an interesting way how the expedition lived, what it did, and 

 all about the country where the work was done, its people, and 

 the rest of its organic world. 



It was Engineer B. Sattler, stationed at Lindi, who made 

 the original discovery of the dinosaur remains in the hills of the 

 Tendaguru district and who informed Professor Fraas of them 

 while the latter was in East Africa in 1907. When this great 

 discovery was reported by Professor Fraas to his countrymen, 

 the further securing of material for Germany was not only 

 regarded as desirable but became a national pride and necessity. 

 A committee was formed by Professor Branca and under the 

 protectorate of His Highness, Herzog Johann Albrecht of 

 Mecklenburg, a call for financial help was sent out, and this 

 was quickly responded to by individuals and corporations. 



The expedition left Marseilles on the thirteenth of March, 

 1909, under the leadership of Doctor "W". Janensch, assisted by 

 Doctor Edward Hennig, both of the University and the Natural 

 History Museum of Berlin. They arrived in the Tendaguru 

 region of German East Africa on the sixteenth of April, toward 

 the end of the rainy season, and remained at work for two years 

 and six months, and then returned home, but the digging still 

 goes on under other field operators. During the first three 

 years about $45,000 was expended by the expedition, resulting 

 in some 4,000 packages of bones and other natural history 

 material. These packages in general weighed about 60 pounds 

 each, but there were many heavier ones requiring anywhere 

 from two to twenty-five men to carry them across the coun- 

 try — a march of about five days along the native trails — to the 

 sea shore. Plaster had to be obtained from Berlin and lumber 

 for boxes from Norway. Recently the Prussian Government 

 voted $12,500 for the field season of 1912. 



The men of the expedition adapted themselves to the tropi- 

 cal climate and educated the negroes to dig out the bones and to 



* Am Tendaguru. Leben und Wirken einer deutschen Forschungs-Expedi- 

 tion zum Ausgrabung vorweltlicher Riesensaurier in Deutsch-Ostafrika, von 

 Dr. Edw. Hennig, Stuttgart, 1912, 151 pages, 1 map, 62 figs, and 9 plates. 



