LOCH NESS MONSTER
REPTILE THOUGHT EXTINCT. The Loch Ness monster is still in , the news. One who has seen it thinks he knows w’uat it is. That the creature may be a gigantic reptile known to have lived thousands of years |go, and believed by naturalists to be extinct, is the suggestion made by Admiral C. B. Prickett, of Nigg, Ross-shire, who says he recently saw the monster while touring on Loch Ness side. His theory is put forward only after a careful study of ancient monsters in the Naturral History Museum in London. He compared his memory picture of the Loch Ness monster with models and pictures, and camo to the conclusion that the only thing that resembled it was —a plesiosaurus. Mr Ludovic Mann, a well-known Scottish antiquarian and naturalist, commenting on Admiral Prickett’s suggestion, said: “Whatever the monster is—and I fell sure there is one—it is causing gi’eat mystery which naturalists will have to face and solve. Too many people are reporting having seen
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 8
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167LOCH NESS MONSTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1938, Page 8
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