Show dr earl douglass will assemble dinosaurs university COli LECTION 0 OF F FIVE DINOSAURS WIELL WELL COX CON TAIN KAHE ILIRE SKULL OP OF THE TERRIBLE 11 dr earl Dog ulass fossil expert of the carnegie institute who had charge of the excavation of 0 the world famous dinosaurs tor for the university ot of utah has been given give complete comp lete charge ot of the setting up u P of the bones of these gigantic monsters the active work of 0 assembling the prehistoric giants will begin within the next few days by two experts who will work under the direct supervision 0 of dr douglass Is a the special totals and equipment required tor for the work are now being prepared special strongly constructed ted work benches ari are being built which will be capable ot of sustaining the huge blocks of stone in which the precious bones are encased it will take at least two years to complete the mounting ot of the university collection so BO delicate Is the task ot of removing the bones from their stone clone encasement the university collection consists of it five specimens ranging from 17 to 00 feet in length the largest of these hese is knows known as the diplodocus and when mounted will be about feet long the animal has an extremely long neck and tall as compared to the rest of the body tho the 2 together constituting about two thirds of the total length of the animal the brontosaurus brontosaurs Bronto saura saurs though not as long as the diplodocus was a much heavier animal and is thought to have had a greater capacity for his vegetable diet one ot of the roost most valuable specimens id in the collection is the forty toot foot carnivorous dinosaur or terrible lizard which has a head measuring 30 by 36 inches the largest ever discovered the skull of this animal Is very rare and very few institutions in the world are fortunate enough to have the head or of this animal thus the find of the university is extremely valuable one of the other two dinosaurs making up the collection is undoubted undoubtedly adly very young measuring only 17 feet in length these animals were very well protected with a thick horny borny skin which proved an effective a armor r n i lor in warding off danger |