Word: rhinoceroses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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An unusual exhibit is on display in the entrance hall of the Museum. This is a fossilized slab of rock from Agate Springs, Nebraska, in which are located the bones of a rhinoceros, so thickly scattered as to make an almost solid pavement. This slab has been prepared in such...
Central Asiatic Expedition to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews. The discoveries of this year include an extraordinarily large rhinoceros-like animal and the lower jaw of a mastodon having large lower tusks, flattened so that they have a shovel effect and measure thirteen inches across.
Rhinocerophiles are urging strictest "word of honor" observance of the rhinoceros season. When two rhinoceroses were shot, out of season, in South Africa last fortnight, a terrific hue and cry was raised to protect the "noble game...
Clearly Edward of Wales must be prepared to sit in informal judgment upon the great, sporting issue of Rhinocerophobes v. Rhinocerophiles. It was unthinkable that he himself should shoot a rhinoceros out of season.
Later last week Dr. Andrews showed that he had been at first jesting with newspapermen. Serious now, he compared the old beast to a story and a half house, 25 ft. tall by 25 ft. deep. With its heavy head it belonged to the rhinoceros family, ate the leaves of...