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OBITUARY. O. C. MARSH. 



Othniel Charles Marsh, professor of palaeontology in 

 Yale University, New Haven, vertebrate palteontologist of the 

 United States Geological Survey and president of the National 

 Academy of Sciences from 1883 to 1895, a past president of the 

 American Association for the advancement ofscience, correspond- 

 ing member of learned and scientific societies in France, Belgium, 

 Germany, Ita]}% Austria, and Denmark, died in his sixty-eighth 

 year at his residence. New Haven, Connecticut, after a brief 

 illness. Prof. Marsh was one of the most brilliant and distin- 

 guished paheontologists in the world. 



He was educated at Yale, Berlin, Heidelberg and Breslau. 

 He achieved a vast amount of work before he died and had in 

 his hands a very large amount of material to describe and 

 illustrate had the untimely hand of death not snatched him, as 

 if in an instant, from his favourite studies and researches. 

 Honours were shovvered upon him by the Institut de France, 

 the Geological Society of London and other distinguished 

 bodies. 



Prof Marsh crossed the Rocky Mts. twenty-one times, 

 visited the Alps and Hills of Germany and carried on many 

 explorations in the Western portion of the New World. He 

 brought to light more than 1,000 species of extinct vertebrates, 

 birds with teeth, flying reptiles, two new orders of mammals, 

 the earliest monkeys and bats in the New World and series of 

 specimens illustrating the evolution of the horse, together with 

 the discover}- of gigantic reptiles, deinosaurs, both carnivorous 

 and herbivorous are to be numbered amongst his best known 

 finds. He has left a monument behind him of great importance 

 and significance. The vast amount of treasures he had gathered 

 during the forty-five years of his acti\e life, when properly 

 housed and cared for and exhibited to advantage, as we trust it 

 will be ere long, will form a magnificent series which will illus- 

 trate a most important phase of the past history of North 

 America in an admirable manner. 



