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FOSSIL SEARCH
NEEDS EXPERTS
Scientific Expeditions Made Up
of Men Who Are Trained
Geologists.
AMATEUR RUINS SKELETONS
American Museum Hunters Are Under
Direction #f Curator of FossIT
Vertebrates —Search Is Seri.
©us Work.
Washington. —The expedition of the
American Museum which for several
months has been searching for the
skeletons of ancient animals in a sand
stone quarry at Agate, Neb., has dis¬
covered many bones of the little rhinoc¬
eros. The deposits containing these
bones have been cut into blocks which
will be shipped to the museum, where
the bones will be placed on exhibition.
The little rhinoceros, or dicerather
ium, as he Is scientifically called, was
about the size qf a half grown calf
and roamed at large during the neo¬
cene period. He had two horns side
by side in front of the skull instead
of one or of one behind the other. The
expedition has been working under the
direction of Dr. William D. Matthew,
curator of fossil vertebrates at the
museum.
Pew persons have any idea of the
vast amount of care and work that a
large scientific institution takes in
planning and preparing for an expedi¬
tion which seeks the remains of these
ancient beasts In the hope that they
will shed additional light on the dim
and distant evolutionary periods of an
early world. They have various objec.
tives In view. Sometimes they are
planned to fill in a gap of scientific
knowledge.
Must Know Many Things.
It may be desirable to know what
animals inhabited a particular region
which has remained unexplored, or ts
find out what kind of animals lived in
a particular geological epoch, or to
trace the ancestry of some species of
animals back to geological times. A
scientist setting nut on such an expedi¬
tion must have as a preliminary a
general knowledge of geology, and of
the geology of the region which he
is to explore. He must be acquainted
with the areas where the formations
of the geological period he is to visit
are to be found. He needs to have
many records of fossils that have been
discovered in the past. Scientific insti¬
tutions have maty observations of the
occurrence of fossils In regions in
which they are interested.
One of the most remarkable fossil
birds ever discovered was brought to
light three years ago in the Big Horn
basin in an area which had been thor¬
oughly explored by fossil hunters since
1891, and yet practically no trace of
had this been great found bird there. know as the diatryna j
American museum explorers have
gone over many old stamping grounds
which had been searched again and
again, and have discovered something
new.
It is Important that such kind of
prospecting and mining be done by
trained men. An inexperienced man
who undertakes to remove such skele¬
tons is pretty sure to ruin them, and
the chances are that he will render
them entirely worthless.
To become a successful collector, It is
not so much a matter of the technic
of collecting as it Is a practical field
knowledge of formations. The collector
must have a trained Judgment in order
to know what prospects are worth in¬
vestigating, and how best to go about
It. It Is for this reason that the Ameri
oan Museum and other institutions
have had to decline offers of voluntary
assistance on expeditions.
Four Men Go Together.
Generally speaking, a collecting ex¬
pedition. Dr. Matthew said, consists
of from two to four men. It is not con¬
sidered good for a man to be alone
and take risks. R does not pay to have
more than four men, otherwise they
are likely to be In one another’s way.
Expeditions are usually organized at
a SBpwu or railroad point where equip¬
ment may be shipped to them.
I* prospecting for fossils each mem¬
ber of the expedition usually sets eut
In u Afferent direction in the morning.
Ho tabes with him his lunch and a
canteen of water, and explores as
ranch ground as he can before night¬
fall. He Is Intent on finding what ap¬
pears to him a good prospect on which
to begin work.
The instructions always issued to
such expeditions are not to take risks.
Tot the collector in his zeal and en
thuslasm for his work would scarcely
be human If he followed these instruc¬
tions to the letter, and he frequently
takes risks of many kinds. In such
expeditions of the museum it is not re¬
called that any of their men have been
daugerously injured. They have had.
to bo sure, attacks of mountain sick¬
ness which is a sort of fever.
Looking for fossils Is a serious work.
The prospecting must be carefully
done. If a big skeleton is to be re¬
moved a good deal of digging is re¬
quired, and this must be done with
extreme care. Sometimes it is neces¬
sary te blast a ledge. The work of
“proapecting a specimen” is anything
but easy. Big specimens must be re¬
moved in several blocks, and great
care must be used in handling them
and in preparing them for transit as
they frequently must travel from L-
TUB COVINGTON, NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1920
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Terrell County Honors Heroes
Dawson.—Impressive memorial ser
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