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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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138 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL two skulls and a number of bones in the British Museum; five skeletons of Di- cynodon, the only other known skele- tons being two in the British Museum; and one skeleton of Endoihiodon with seven additional skulls, a genus repre- sented in the Cape Town Museum by a very imperfect skeleton and a few frag- ments and about equally in the British Museum. It contains also some very fine specimens of Cynodont skulls and two perfect Therocephalian skulls be- sides many imperfect ones, the Cape Town Museum ha\ing but two as per- fect and the British Museum only one of small size. Certain of the South African skeletons of the collection have been mounted under the direction of Dr. Broom, who has spent several months in the American Museum of Natural History preparing this collection for exhibition. Some are of massive size and gigantic proportions, others are diminutive, and in A'iew of the fact that all were destined to extinction, we are reminded of the famous lines of Lucretius: "Hence, doubtless, earth prodigious forms at first Gendered, of face and members most gro- tesque ; many a tribe has sunk supprest Powerless its kind to gender. For whate'er Feeds on the living ether, craft or speed. Or courage stern, from age to age preserves In ranks uninjured. . ."
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An almost perfect skull of a large Pareiasaurus, Pareiasaurus whaitsi Broom, which lived som.e 17,000,000 years ago. The lower jaws are larger than in most species and have underneath two peculiar projections, the posterior of which resembles a small horn which passes inward. Both horns are broken off from the jaw on the left side. (One-fourth natural size)

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