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IN the course of an interesting account of the discovery in the Gobi Desert of forty more dinosaur eggs, representing three species, given to the corre spondent of the Times at Pekin by Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, the leader of the third expedition of the Natural History Museum of New York to Mongolia, which appeared in the issue of September 9, it is stated that implements of a type corresponding to the Azilian period of western Europe have beei discovered by members of the expedition. These implements, made of red jasper, chalcedony, and chert, were found under the sand dunes which are characteristic of the district, and include such foims as spear- and arrow- heads, axes and knives, and so forth, of careful workmanship. Pieces of egg-shell of dinosaur and giant ostrich pierced with holes were evidently used for ornament. In a more recent deposit were two fossil skulls with other evidence of a later culture, which is stated to be “probably neolithic,” although bronze points are mentioned as among the finds. Other relics of early man found in this area include a few imple ments of Mousterian type and pictographs illustrating moose, elk, and other extinct mammals of which the relation to the other finds is not specified.