290 KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY. 



By far the most productive of any of the known localities is that in 

 Phillips county a few miles south of Long Island, a locality which has 

 already yielded vast quantities of bones, and which is in nowise 

 exhausted. The localiiiy was first discovered in 1883 by Mr. Charles 

 Sternberg, who that year collected from it for the University of Kan- 

 sas. In the two following years, Mr. Sternberg and Mr. J. B. Hatcher 

 obtained large numbers of bones from the same s]^ot for the United 

 States' Geological Survey, under the direction of Professor Marsh, 

 who renamed most of the species found there. Later, collections 

 were made from this same locality by Professor Cragin, and, in 1891, 

 by the late Mr. E. P. West, of the University of Kansas. From the 

 large collections made by him and Mr. T. R. Overton, on whose 

 father's farm the " bone-quarry " is located, the skeleton, a photograph 

 of which is shown in Plate VIII, was obtained. Mr. Overton has 

 been, since the death of Mr. West, my assistant in the Museum of 

 Kansas University, and the restoration is chiefly due to his skillful 

 and careful labor. It is very rare that any two bones are found in 

 relation in this especial deposit, so that the discovery of a skeleton at 

 all complete of any individual is extremely improbable. The skeleton 

 as restored is, therefore, a "composite," made up, probably, of nearly 

 as many individuals as there are bones. Nevertheless, so well are 

 the bones articulated, one would hardly suspect that they had not 

 belonged to a single individual. The different elements of the 

 skeleton were selected from among many hundreds of this species. 

 In the preparation of the skeleton, I have constantly advised with 

 Mr. Overton, and I am under obligations to Prof. Henry Osborn of 

 Columbia, who at his visit to the University the past year, made a 

 number of suggestions and criticisms, which have been followed so 

 far as possible. The bones themselves, in their natural state are far 

 too soft to admit of articulation. They were, therefore, saturated with 

 hard parat^ne, of which nearly fifty pounds were used. 



The principal dimensions of this skeleton are as follows: Length, 

 not including tail, 9 feet; height, 4 feet; greatest girth, 9 feet 4 inches. 



