This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... of the American Tertiary formations, some of them unique, and all of great value in illustrating the history and evolution of the mammalia in North America. Fourth, the Cope Pampean Collection, obtained in the Pampean Formation of the Argentine Republic by Messrs. Ameghino, Larroque, and Brachet, exhibited at the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... of the American Tertiary formations, some of them unique, and all of great value in illustrating the history and evolution of the mammalia in North America. Fourth, the Cope Pampean Collection, obtained in the Pampean Formation of the Argentine Republic by Messrs. Ameghino, Larroque, and Brachet, exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1878, and purchased by Professor Cope. It was purchased from his estate for the i. Ed 8 Museum at a cost of $10,000 in 1899 by Messrs. Havemeyer, Dodge, James, Iselin, Constable, and Osborn, Trustees of the Museum. This collection contains a fine series of skeletons of ground-sloths, glyptodons, saber-tooth tiger, and other extinct South American mammals, of high exhibition value. Fifth, the Cope Collection of Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Cope Fishes of North America, presented to the Museum in 1902 by Presi-possil dent Jesup at a cost of $20,000. It includes magnificent skeletons of RePtiles. etc. the amphibious, carnivorous, and duck-billed dinosaurs, a splendid series of the ancient reptiles and amphibians of the Permian Period, and other specimens of high scientific and exhibition value. Sixth, the Whitney Collections of Fossil and Recent Horses, ob-Whitney tained and prepared in 1901-3 by Western expeditions sustained collection, through a special fund of $15,000 provided by the late William C. Whitney. This includes a splendid series of skeletons, skulls, etc., of extinct and living horses, illustrating the Evolution of the Horse in Nature and under Domestication. This exhibit has since been much expanded and improved by specimens presented or through funds provided by Messrs. Randolph Huntington, James R. Keene, Frank K. Sturgis, George J. Gould, Arthur Curtiss James, Percy R. Pyne, Francis R. Appleton, and Henry F. ...
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