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Show Famous Dinosaurs . Will Be Mounted i Dr. Earl Dougless, fossil expert, of the Carnegie Institue, who had charge of the excavation of the world lamous dinosaurs for the University of Utah,' ' has been given complete charge of the setting up of the bones :f these gigantic monsters. The active ac-tive work of assembling the prehis-;oric prehis-;oric giants will begin next week by two experts who will work under the lirect supervision of Dr. Douglas. The special tools and (equipment required for the work are now being prepared. Special strongly construct 2d work benches are being built which ivill be capable' of sustaining the huge olocks of stone in which the previous jones are encased. It will take at east two years to complete the moun ting of the University collection, so Jelicate is the task of removing the Jones from their stone encasement. The University collection consists it five specimens ranging from 17 to 100 feet in length. The largest of these is known ts the Diplodocus and when mounted will be about 100 feet long. The animal has an extremel ong neck and tail as compared to the est of the body, the two together constituting about two thirds of the ;otal length of the animal. The Bron-:osarus, Bron-:osarus, though not as long as the Diplodocus, was much heavier ani-nal ani-nal and is thought to have had a greater capacity for his Vegetable diet. One of the most valuable specimens spe-cimens in the collection is the forty-:'oot forty-:'oot carnivorouc dinosaur or the "terrible "ter-rible lizard" which has a head meas-aring meas-aring 30 by 36 inches, the largest 3ver discovered. The skulls of these animals are very rare and very few institutions in the wold are fortunate anough to have the head of this animal, an-imal, thus the find of the University is extremely valuable. One of the other two dinosaurs making up the collection . is undoubtedly very young measuring only 17 feet in length. These animals were very well protect ed with a thick horny skin which prov ed an effective armor in warding off danger. . |