THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 767.— May, 1905. 



THE LARGEST SKELETON OF A DINOSAUR. 



By W. J. Holland, Director of the Carnegie Museum. 



(Plate III.) 



On May 12th, at 1 p.m., Mr. Andrew Carnegie formally pre- 

 sented to the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), 

 South Kensington, a reproduction of the skeleton of Diplodocus 

 carnegii, Hatcher. The original, of which the specimen in the 

 Natural History Museum is a replica, is in the Carnegie Museum 

 at Pittsburgh. The larger portion of the skeleton represents a 

 specimen which was discovered, in the summer of 1899, on Sheep 

 Creek, Wyoming. In the summer of 1900 a second skeleton, 

 not as complete as the first, was found on land immediately ad- 

 jacent to that on which the original discovery had been made. 

 In the summers of 1902 and 1903 two other specimens of Diplo- 

 docus were discovered in the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming, 

 and out of the material furnished by these four it has been 

 possible for the writer and his associate, the late Prof. J. B. 

 Hatcher, to reconstruct the entire skeleton. What one specimen 

 lacked the other supplied, and, while not every point is as yet 

 absolutely ascertained in relation to the collocation of some of 

 the bones of this colossal beast, it is certain that we know far 

 more about it than is known of the structure of any other 

 similar great creature of the past, unless it be Iguanodon 

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