Show 1 fifie fl ew were wew found ft a rt tinte aart johna alo also obtained I 1 croop of tjoe r twenty five ave eggs it IN taken out bome rome of or them u la in ie 0 bivil ti com o 0 of the original oriel nel kup K up pre alvn if allx of the ground eirk qed by the ert ision that ird had orn ss V y the sandstone in which thy ott led others aare 10 ll 11 the ii nh li mah only paola in slat i the eggs in johlin i it i lutch it twiller llian iliac the colial lot and were ofiel lly ar ate awn laid ly by a pullet illde ur field the large in 01 by a full ditomo lien lion or they may lit 1 ill the eggs apt ct of an itri entirely diff trint 11 4 0 1 mot ant rt of nil till win uns ill ll 11 4 ct et 4 74 A 4 A A 11 T AIM 14 I 1 I 1 C A A 1 b a and guaranteed tn ta fae he years old OUM affie and uki fun r rr hoory orr 7 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN olt SALE ME one eeg egg 3 this it is not an advertisement juet just a plain statement of fact which aich gives the lie ile to the timeworn time worn baying saying that there Is nothing new under the sun for this one egg Is the egg ol 01 a e dinosaur and that it something ne new inasmuch as man wan never saw one before and this dinosaurs dinosaur s egg instead of being graded extra or fresh first or ordinary first or cen cien dirty Is in guaranteed to be at least years old incidentally it a a hot storage ess egg not cold storage of 01 course dated eggs anre nothing new but here 8 one with the reverse english on it it and new and this ess egg though fossilized and solid rock ig Is cherished at a a net nest ege egg which again la is something new moreover ou may have to pay con sid Bide raMy embly more than tor for this one egg eg the chap u ho want wants it moat most and has the longest purse Is the fellow who Is most apt to get it and then he bell 11 have something new in brief this fossil dinosaurs egg was brought to america with others from mongolia by the third asiatic expedition it Is for sale at an upset price of 5 the money to fora form the nest egg of a fund to finance a fourth expedition planned in the be hope of finding the fossil remains of the very earliest man the leader of this third asiatic ex tion was prof roy chapman an drewe drews curator in chief of the division of exploration and research of the american museum of natural Ia tural history who on two previous expedition expeditions mongolia had made important ducov cries erles it wae was financed by the museum the american asiatic association and asia magazine its objective was a depression in the gobi desert of mongolia a thousand miles or more from pekin and about thirty miles from the altai Altal mountains here Is a hole of a dozen miles or so across in a smooth plain its edges a vast complex of bad lands landl it was reached last july by a mile jour ney by motorcar across a desert sup piles plies being carried by camels probes eor sor Andre andrews wil writes rites thus in part in asia magazine of the discovery of the eggs I 1 our real thrill came on the world day when george olson reported at tiffin that be wa was sure he lie had found foll fossil eggs we joked him film a good deal but nevertheless all of us u were curious bough nought nough to walk down with him after luncheon then our indifference sud denly evaporated for we realized that we were looking at the first dinosaur eggs ever eer seen by a human being tint they must be those of a dinosaur we felt certain true enough it never was mas known before that dino aurs did lay eggs but since most modern reptiles are oviparous it wa as cons probable that their ancient ancestors follo followed ned this method of reproduction although hundreds of skulls and skeletons of dinosaurs had beba dise discovered in vari 0 A 4 I 1 0 e A r 1 9 d 1 14 7 ous parts of the world never bad bed 00 egg been brought to light these egg eggs could not be those of 01 a bird no birds are tire known from ui tit 0 lower cretaceous geological in which the eggs were mere found itina all the jurassic and upper birds were touch much too small to have laid eggs of this size the el oRate shape of the eggs Is distinctly lan ian A bird birds it egg usually Is gueft larger nt at one end than at the other because it Is deposited in a net nest frota which it might roll out unless it re r evolved on its it point reptile edgil g which often are buried in the earth or sand and usually are elongate and 1 lnig I lar in shape to the specimens that vre e found these eggs were in a greila are deposit full tun of dinosaur eke letone 09 aad nh containing so far as we could no remains of other animals or ot of three of the eggs lay in a duat and evidently were in the exact spot where they had been deposited by apo B dinosaur the broken shells at of sef cral eral other others were partially Imbed imbedded deol 14 1114 the rock just under a low ao stone shelf beside w which bach they deft lying e could see the projecting to 11 of avio others while all the benibe meM berli of the expedition ft ere on their hil and knees about those ten million r old eggs george olsen began to prope away aay the loose rock on the summit ot t the shelf and to our amazement uncovered covered nn the skeleton kelc ton of a mall small sour lying eight or ten inches libolt abo the eggs 1 ae on it the reptile that floa u laid the tile eggs or wae was it a 1 dinosaur that had come to feed apoll o 0 them themi the preservation Is pI some of the egg eggs have been couii cru lleo ii but the pebbled surface of the thelin alic Is an perfect ae as if it the eggs had beell laid yesterday instead of ten 01 year years ago the thell are about oft tilla sixteenth of an inch lach thick and preb pr ably bere ft ere hard anti 1 not membranous fine sand hag has filtered altered through and the interior of all the ili I 1 solid sandstone nand stone in the the bite bits of broken shell partially par PA 1 l bedded in the rock are P plainly to wen and it need needs no stretch of I 1 itah nation to realize that the object t it alt aured are really egg eggs A few das da after the first i novy ref that in several of the ess eggs that had teen broken in halt we me could plainly detect the delicate bone ot of the embryonic bryonia dinosaur never before in the history of clence science lias has it been possible to tudy study not did vie e dl coer the eggs but we stained during our ove five week weeks in thie this locality it n complete development series crie atif baby dinos nun probably had been belon hatched only 1 few and other others lo 10 all till stagers 0 of f kroth up to tho the adults ten beef fee bolig with completely aci eloped trill trills slid Inel plent home acre i ere added to our collection hen thase are placed in herleg diwi ri wi from the tile ega to the tile great tri ceril era topa tops lint that has juet just ben been in 10 tho the american Arn erlean museum of 0 natural Ill story it bui ill be nn all amazing exhibition of reptilian iso no other spot on earth baa has fielded huch uch A quantity of specimens and unique ma aerial AI as this sandy basin in the center of the gobi desert prom that oe locality our collection numbered cumbered piety cases of fertile fossils weighing five tons to it included seventy skulls tulle I four teen en skeletons and twenty five of the tb grat dinosaur egia ever teen seen by human edek d interesting as li is this till find of din dura eggs the larger a of the esP expedition edition in more important it hat ha located in lit the chapan nor region geological strata that may contain the re ro conics of primitive matt and there the bork orl of the fourth expedition will be concentrated the work already done proves alle europe aad ona america were continents at seal eca level and practically iwach awash while white the Illma layns bad had not yet let appeared mongolia waa was a fertile lifted plain the animal darden en of 0 ilen oen it ie IN hoped to prove that it avat alo also the human garden ot of eden the expedition bal hat not yet carefully examined the geological strata rata that day piny contain the remains tit of primitive pian president henry fairfield oe 09 borne of the american museum of 0 nat oral history letory ll belle believes ties that the origin ot of man and of the lelier ape was in central asia the fossil beds 1 already partly explored arc are too old to contain the remains i of man hut the tile chagan chagrin bor kd beds K d are of the right period as they belong 1 to the latter part of the he age 6 of lla professor ortle 11 I 1 inclined to think that nun man a s ancestry 1 be found to extend far into the pa pat lit the age of the java ape ave man ta flat been estimated at years tint put lie thinks it mill not be 1 le ing it the first human types sir are discovered in the early miocene in aliu cate case a estimate of mans man tanning would be well oer oler a million years anday an way the same good luck that brought about the discovery of tha dinosaurs eggs may brins bring back thu the dosall remains of the primitive pian inan whose descendants crossed thu land bridge to america and ills nisi ol tul 01 hafed to europe india and afram |