Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1911 — AFRICA A PART OF AMERICA [ARTICLE]

AFRICA A PART OF AMERICA

Discovery of Reptilian Fossils Convinces Scientist Two Countries Were Once Joined. .. .» Berlin. —The saurian fossil discoveries in German East Africa appear to be more important as well as more extensive than at first supposed, Professor Banca. director of the Museum of Paleontology at Berlin, concluding from the similarity of the bones found In Africa and America that those countries were connected in remote geological times. Some of the bones which have al-

ready reached Berlin and have been set up in the museum beside the skeleton cast of the huge diplodocus presented to the emperor by Andrew Carnegie show that the dinosaurus of Africa were much larger than those of North America, but of such striking similarity as to indicate that they belong to the same species. Professor Janesch. the scientist, who h'eaded the expedition to recover the fossils a year ago, now reports that deposits exist in two other places. An appeal has issued to the German public for money to secure the fossils for the Berlin museum, as otherwise they may fall into the hands of foreign scientists.