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of support and are gradually becoming vestiges. The three-toed horee in 

 the center of the alcove is one <>t the most complete and finest exam] 

 ever unearthed. 



Restoration of Eohippus, the four-toed horse. This ancestor of the modem horse, 

 scarcely larger than the red fox, lived some three millions of years ago. It comes from 

 the Lower Eocene of Wyoming and New Mexico. 



Opposite the horse exhibit on the other side of the hall are series of 

 specimens illustrating the evolution of the camel, deer and other cloven- 

 hoofed animals. These animals, like the cow of to-day, walked on the 

 tips of the third and fourth fingers, and the gradual disappearance or 

 reduction to useless vestiges of the other fingers and toes can bo traced 

 as in the horse series. 



The large blocks, showing groups of skeletons of early camels, 

 skulls and bones of primitive ruminants in their natural 

 position in the rock, show how these specimens are some- 

 Giant Pigs times found and raise questions as to how t hoy got there, 

 and Pigmy more easily asked than answered. The giant pigs, or 

 Hippopotamus e i theres, and the pigmy hippopotamus will repay 

 examination. 



The primitive rhinoceroses are shown near the center of the hall on 



_,,. the right. As here indicated great herds roamed over the 



Rhinoceros . , . lm • t*- • 1 i i - « 1 



fields in the Tertiary Period and their fossil remains are 



found imbedded in the sandstones and clavs of the badland forma- 



Camels 



