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Show . j Scientist Sets) Out to Capture Plesiosaurus In Andean Lake Dl'ENOS AIRES March 24. ( H;, th Associated Press.) Elaborate arrangements for tho capture or de struction of the anachronistic creature crea-ture reported to have been seen In an Andean lake ha.v e been made by the expedition Which left Thursday for Patagonia under th- RUtplces of the Buenos Aires Zoological garden The members of the party are all well armed, carrying rlephan' n'le and ISSSOSS. Explosives (,re also being be-ing taken with whfctl to mine the I lake and thus scare out I ne monster be U plesiosaurus. glyptodon or megatherium, as various!) reported. The zoo's taxidermist is taking along embalming materials tor 1st case the beaet Is killed Another item of the outfit is a gasoline motor with which to props! the boat to be COB-slructod COB-slructod on the shores of the lake. Professor Onelll. director pf ihe , zoo. who organized the BXpeditloOi , has directed that If it falls to find 'he animal after six wselts "';irrh. , the party shall proceed to other parts 'J of I'atagonla. He said to the "orres-pondent. "orres-pondent. "I am laughed at. but I am con vlnced that some large, strange anl-' anl-' rnals exist in Patagonia. When Theo- ' i dore Roosevelt visited Argentina he! wh-s presented with a fragment of , hide picked up in Patagonia with ' long hair still attached to if. The hbie WAS a half-inch thick ami u rlously reinforced beneath the surface sur-face with tiny rods of bono. It must have belonged to some hug .animal I recently alive. What was it?" |