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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

Characteristic Exposure of the Manix Pleistocene Lake-beds on the North Bank of the Mohave River near Field Station in the Manix Basin. (Photograph by J. P. Buwalda.)

mammal group in the whole history of our fauna. It included creatures resembling on the one hand the pigs and on the other hand the camels and deer. There are also rare remains of a large antelope or deer of the genus Dromomeryx. A small deer-antelope, Merycodus, a dainty creature with teeth like an antelope and horns like a deer, is represented at several localities by abundant fragments of teeth, limb-bones and

Bad-land Structure in the Manix Basin. (Photograph by J. P. Buwalda.)