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LEFT SAURID.2E 260 SAVANNAH able evidence of their similarity in struc- ture to the harmless little lizard of the present day. SAURID.ffi, the gar-pike family, com- prising elongated fishes covered with scales of stony hardness, which are ex- tended into imbricated spines on the first rays of all the fins; about 25 species, all American, are known. The genus Lepi- dosteus, containing the gar fishes of the Northern lakes, Western and Southern rivers, is characterized by elongated slightly unequal jaws, which are fur- nished over their whole inner surface with rasp-like teeth, and a row of long, pointed teeth along their edges. SAUROPODA, according to Marsh, an order of dinosauria, which he raises to a class. Fore and hind limbs nearly equal; feet plantigrade, pentidactyle, ungulate; anterior vertebrae opisthoccelian ; sternal bones paired; premaxiliaries with teeth. They were herbivorous, and attained their greatest development in the Jurassic. Families: Atlantosauridte, Diplodocidse, and Morosauridx. SAUROPSIDA, a primary group or province of vertebrata, comprising rep- tiles and birds. An epidermic skeleton, in the form of scales or feathers, is almost always present. The centra of the verte- brae are ossified, but have no terminal epiphyses ; the skull has a completely ossi- fied occipital segment; mandible always present, and each ramus consists^ of an articular ossification, connected with the skull by quadrate bone. The apparent ankle joint is situated between the proxi- mal and distal divisions of the tarsus, not between the tibia and the astragalus, as in the mammalia. The heart is tri- or quadri-locular, and some of the blood cor- puscles are red, oval, and nucleated. Res- piration is never effected by means of branchiae, but after birth is performed by lungs. The cerebral hemispheres are never united by a corpus callosum. The reproductive organs open into the cloaca; the oviduct is a Fallopian tube with a uterine dilatation in the lower part. All are oviparous or ovoviviparous ; there are no mammary glands; the embryo has an amnion and a large respiratory allantois, and is nourished at the expense of the massive vitellus. SAURY, the Scomberesox saurus, a fish called also the skipper. It is from 12 to 18 inches long, about an inch in depth, and the jaw has a hinge movement as in Be- lone. The name is sometimes extended to the whole genus Scomberesox. SAUSAGE, an article of food, consist- ing of chopped or minced meat, as pork, beef, or veal, seasoned with sage, pepper, salt, etc., and stuffed into properly cleaned entrails of the ox, sheep, or pig, twisted at short intervals into sections. SAUTERNE, a kind of white Bor- deaux wine, made from grapes grown in the neighborhood of Sauternes, in the de- partment of Gironde, France. SAVAGE, MINOT JUDSON, an Amer- ican clergyman; born in Norridgewock, Me., June 10, 1841. He was graduated at the Theological Seminary at Bangor, 1864; went to California as a Congrega- tional home missionary, and preached at San Mateo and at Grass Valley. He re- moved to Framingham, Mass. ; thence was called to Indianapolis, and afterward to Hannibal, Mo. He accepted a call to the Third Unitarian Church in Chicago in 1873, and after a year there was installed pastor of the Church of the Unity, Bos- ton, where he remained for 22 years. Af- ter 1896 he was minister in the Church of the Messiah, New York, in association with Dr. Robert Collyer. In his very active career he has published over 30 books on religious, social, and moral ques- tions, among which may be mentioned: "The Religion of Evolution" (1876) ; "So- cial Problems" (1886) ; "Jesus and Mod- ern Life" (1893) ; "A Man" (1895) ; "Re- ligion for Today" (1897) ; "Poems" (1882) ; "Our Unitarian Gospel," "The Minister's Handbook," "Psychics," "Life Beyond Death," and "Life's Darkest Prob- lems" (1905), etc. He died in 1918. SAVAGE ISLAND, a small coral is- land in the Pacific ocean, between the Samoan and Tongan islands. It is about 30 miles in circuit. It was annexed by Great Britain in 1888 and to New Zealand in 1901. Pop. 3,880. SAVANNA, or SAVANNAH, an ex- tensive open plain or meadow in a tropical region, yielding pasturage in the wet sea- son, and often having a growth of under- shrubs. The word is used chiefly in tropi- cal America. SAVANNA, a city of Illinois, in Car- roll co. It is on the Mississippi river and on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads. Its industries include storage elevators and a sash and door factory. Pop. (1910) 3,691; (1920) 5,237. SAVANNAH, a city and county-seat of Chatham co., Ga.; on the Savannah river, 18 miles from its mouth, and on the Central of Georgia, the Atlantic Coast ^ Line, the Seaboard Air Line, and the Southern railroads; 90 miles S. W. of Charleston. It is built on a bluff of sand, about 40 feet above low water, and has a water frontage of about 3 miles, the city receding about 2 miles from the river.