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Show IHEsSllSIS PITTSBURG. Pa.. D-c. 2S. There was I a large atte ndance of delegates to tho two important scientific so I- etles iu convention hen today, the I Arnerlctin Geolei-'lcal seicietj anej the American, Society of Palconiolngy. lu ! the meet Nils of the latter tho resoli;- i Hon adopteei by the gcoiogicul society j yesterday referring to fielght rales en fussll rock waadoptvd. Among the pnrs r ad was one by i Dr. W. J. Holland,, director of the j Curuecdo Museum, whti illustrated his i talk with slides showlil the Carnegie j dinosaur quarries In I'taliv Here have be-on unearthed seven skcle-tons, ea-h ! complete and lj in; side by sVJ prae- : I Rally w ithout any ellsnlacoiiNnt of parts. This will enable reslorai iein and erection as they were in life, I One of these, according t i Dr HorJ land, represents the largest thus far found on this continent The cervical, or neck, vertahrae show the neck to have been four lo five feet In diameter. diam-eter. The dorsal vertabrao are si fee t from the hoi torn to the end of ' the spine. The legs are proportionately proportion-ately gigantic. Dr. Holland received official not if i cation that ho had be-en awarded th decoration by Czar Nicholas of Russia, Rus-sia, of the Order of St Stanislaus for his work In InsLiDIng in the Im perlal Museum of Sciences In St. I Petersburg the replica eif the diploio- cub presented by Andrew Cnmeicio. I rin I |