| Show S IT COST TO MOUNT THE DINOSAUR J Slate Would Have Ha Bi Dig Big Jo Job on Hands if it it Undertook Work Wor Now Xo Being Be De- ing lone Done h one by 11 Carnegie t Ins Institute h Proposed legislation at this session session ses ses- sion sloe of the legislature to prohibit or or restrict the shipment of fossils from the tate of Utah Is meeting with the objection of scientists with the work of the Carnegie mu mu- eum which has been In operation I for several years ears Professor Earl Douglas of Jensen r representing the Carnegie institution tion in a communication states that if such legislation were directed against the work worl It could not affect the operations as the exhuming of ot the hones of the great prehistoric monsters Is being done under United States government permit on on govern government ment land which has been been set aside as a monument Professor ProCessor Douglas states that where the tho work is understood senti sent sentiment sentiment ment meat Is favorable to its continuance H He HG states however that it is not generally generall realized what a large al altO amount tO nt of oC skilled labor and money would would be required to set up the skeleton eto eton l of a dinosaur even if the state stat e workers knew where here to find th the e bones He states that there are only three museums in the world so endowed as to be able to afford getting out and and mounting these huge skeletons and the Carnegie institution is the only one doing this work today f For the state to take out and r. r mount a single dinosaur says the i professor or to secure a collection r. r of equal value from the fossil beds c would cost from to Professor Douglas states that for forr x r t additional permits to be given to work work the the field at the present time would be to invite confusion Parts 1 of skeletons would be distributed r without order to widely separated museums museums and the work of ot reconstruction recon recon- E i by by hy the scientists would bey bo bl- li if greatly y handicapped 0 |
