Show death claims clai ms prof douglas Afier After Operation spent greater part of life in search of prehistoric pre historic re S mains in uintah basin initiated 40 Dinos dinosaur national monument uintah aba I 1 lost a great irle friend nd and midi consistent w n t booster booster bo oater when dr ga aste iste earl rl douglas 0 u glas scientist poet author lecturer and discoverer of what la Is perhaps the most com complete piete collection ot or dinosaur deposits depo eit in the arld died al at hia his home at twelfth east ent bl st aalt lake like city from complications resulting from an attack ot of flu 1 and result ing operation ills 1113 death came cam as a district shock not only to his family and friends friend but to men of science er rv where he ire waa was rushed late lato tuesday evening to a salt ewt lake hoso hospital tall and died that same night dr douglas was as born in medford minn october 23 28 1863 1862 in 1 he ho studied at the university of south dakota and the agricultural college oc 9 state taking the degree of bachelor of science he later studied at the iowa rows state college and also at tho the universo tv of montana where he took loft hia his masters degree from 1901 to 1902 he was a fellow of princeton university find did special work for scott of that institution on october 20 1906 he marra marri tot pearl 0 of alder montana ate in virginia city montana dr douglass taught school during low to 1924 he engaged in research work for the carnegie museum of pittsburgh and it was during this mission that he made the discovery of the dinosaur skeletons etoni said to be the barged ever and now contained in the car negia pr previous e to this in 1809 1909 dr douglass I 1 ad gone into eastern utah to dac out thu tho collection collect jn in of dinosaur dinosaurs now on exhibition at st the university of f utah he ile supervised tha th ditoto 0 ol 01 and their assembly recently he be devoted much time to and study while white ua douglass work in the die dis covery of fossil bones waa was notable it Is aid said he did not consider this his malor contribution to science he ile had what Is 13 perhaps one of the finest vate i collections of botanical specimens mens are his widow and ft a via bawin earl douglass for more than thirty years dr far Doug douglass lais paleontologist and geologist of salt lake city utah roamed tart vast areas streu of the wert west on hunting expedit eions his however waa was not in the pursuit of flying game seldom did be carry with him a tire fire arm or other weapon ef of attack or defense his 1 weapons were the prospector prospectors a pick and shovel supplemented by magnifying ang glasses El asses and the game he h ranting lied zed so many millenniums ago that la in its buryj places no evidence has been found thit man was existent coexistent co with the oba objects acts discovered for many years dr doublas was as connected with the continued on pap 3 death claims prof douglass following operation wo continued inked from paie page one carnegie institute and in 1902 he was sent to the rocky mountain region in the for dino dinosaur taur skeletons at ter several years ot of roaming over the badlands of utah and other states he came to the uintah basin an area of more than thin square miles in northeastern utah and here his search wu was rewarded by discovering on august 19 1909 a complete dinosaur skeleton outlined on the rocky summit of at ft I lodge at a point near the bats of the green river and fifteen miles cast 1 1 ast of vernal utah excavating proved d a number af t skeleton ranging ran in length from eighty to one hundred and twenty feet feek were in the hard sandstone idge these me the only complete dinosaur skeletons with skulls ever discovered covered dia anywhere any here in the world work and several specimens are standing in various nuie urns of the united states the goeman his 3 set e t aside eighty acres with the dinosaur skeleton quarry in the center and has designated the tract as the dinosaur national manumit Mon umit it in the 1925 session ol 01 congress a X bill bill was introduced trod for an appropriation to place this monument in such shape that it be a mecca for scientists interested in the ages of the dim past and the life of animals then existing in october 1926 dr douglass again visited the seen scene e of his important dis dl covery 11 L OT and again he was re sc historic hs animal life tut twit previously found and described on his 19 1928 16 expedition in northeastern utah dr douglass discovered hundreds of spec specimen inions of bealls dranon dragon flies r like insects and other fossil inse ts is thit lived in the days of 0 the dim past put lie ile aleo also discovered amsil ant ants and bees end and these constitute a discovery nes ne to science none as tar far as ta known had been discovered and i described ii I i Dougin ss tat stat s that from three tn to tour four millions million of years hate hae elapsed d sine sin aln e these ants and be s I 1 vied and died hundreds hundred nt of apo caimens if if various in ineck sects have been taken from the shale rocks of the uintah duin din and other sections As an illustration Ulia of 0 the changing ching inai characteristics of 0 th airth during the millenniums it imy may to tc t c bated that the spot where here the rune tuge drici satir I 1 skeletons kele tons ere by protessor doug douglass am was at one time tn in th dim past covered by t two miles of marine and contin continental entil land ee posits after the aphea tant created the uintah mountains moun wine of the rising to an altitude of more than 13 feet P this vast deport depris t cc covering er the graevs of the mons was reduced by erosion until the bones vi ere exposed it mut must have taken I 1 millions of years to bring this about it Is apparent to geologists that the carof I 1 the he dinosaur dl noun mi floated down shallow h M I 1 still t ill water sater and the boned bones a until they wre were stranded in I 1 then covered ith river sand thich af at ateward hardened to sandstone durin during the period when the dinn aurs auts roamed roomed in what shat le Is now north postern utah no moun mountains this rose skyward and the surface of the land as not far above sea ea level rivers and streams meandered through the lov lowlands lands and emptied into fresh water lakes or into vast last MV ashes |