Show IMPORTANT FINIS FINDS IN IH WESTE WESTERN FOSSIL BEDS Berkeley Cn Cal Dec Dee 31 Important In western fossil beds were sero announced by hy Prof Pmt John C Merriam head hood of or the oll department of 0 thu tho University of or California before beforetime time the section nf of the Geologic Geological al I 1 of America In the tIme sixth an tn nual of oC that organization A specimen of or the very ery early WItS was unearthed In III the time middle triangle of at Nevada N After Join chiseled out oUI of the hard bard limestone tone matrix In which the bone bones were mero embedded tho Gm specimen showed tho time greater part art of oC the lIme luaU half of oC the body boll Including the skull kull vertebrae and front limb pr the upper turin arm fI rm and LInd forearm of 0 the latter latler being I IIII very el and distinct Another important And w M that made In the tho cave Ca u Shasta county The specimen WM was a new lIew form torm of at enormous i Izo 0 hith hitherto erto erie unknown to science It consisted of ot the greater part of 01 tIme the skeleton of 0 all an animal aa as large aa a an n elk but with distinctly sheep and oat goat Tho Iho most moet noticeable feature of or the tho fossil IH is the horns horn which are re so 10 large lane and anti magnificently formed that th 1117 y make the animal distinctive among at lout leut of any typo type known here So complete Is II the tile skeleton of at this beast that lint It will ifill soon loon be st set t up In th the pale museum at Berkeley for general exhibition |