specimen is a saber toothed tiger of which there is only one other specimen known in the world and that is in the museum at Buenos Ayres. The size of the skeleton is about that of a large dog. The teeth are long like the tusks of a walrus but their edges are like a knife. This animal is be lieved to have been of a kind that devoured the sloth. No other use can be imagined by naturalists for the possession of such sharp teeth. Reason is found for this theory in the fact that the surface of a sloth's hide is like the shell of a turtle. The skeleton of the sharp toothed animal is almost perfect. There are twelve different kinds of armadillos in the collection and about eight different kinds of sloths. The size of the sloth skeletons varies from that of a small black bear to the largest elephant. There is no known species of sloth living in the present day whose size comes up to that of the small black bear. There is one specimen in the col lection of a very large sloth with the head resembling a com promise between a horse and a rhinoceros—very rare. The saber toothed tiger and the club tailed armadillo are sup posed to have ruled the forest in their day. In regard to the question of mastery between themnaturalists believe they 'gave each other the path.' Also in the collection are specimens of many small animals dogs deer and wild boars. There are the skeletons of ostriches and other large birds. It has not yet been determined to what institution of science this collection will be presented. It was reported that the Academy of Natural Sciences of this city would get them but Mr. Cope expresses himself undecided between it and the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. The collection is conceded by naturalists to have been the most valuable in the Paris Exhibition. It supplies a gap which has long been wanting in affording a chance to students of this country desiring to study certain kinds of fossils to obtain the knowledge they want without going to Europe. e Torre
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