Books and Specimens 



For the distribution of animal life there are The 

 Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals, 

 by Angelo Heilprin, and a Geographical History of 

 Animals, by R. Lydekker. 



For works treating of the structure and classifica- 

 tion of animals the student is referred to A Manual of 

 Palaeontology, by Alleyne Xicholson and R. Lydekker ; 

 A Text-Book of Palaeontology, by Karl von Zittel, 

 English edition ; Outlines of Vertebrate Palaeontology, 

 by A. S. AToodward ; Dragons of the Air, by H. G. See- 

 ley ; and Fishes, Living and Fossil, by Bashford Dean. 

 The first two books are large and rather expensive ; the 

 third is a good, compact work ; the last t vv o are much 

 more popular in their nature than the others, although, 

 as indicated by their titles, more limited in scope. 



All our large museums have on exhibition many 

 fossils; but the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York, has the best display of vertebrates in 

 this country, if not in the world. This does not mean 

 largest^ but most instructive, and containing the great- 

 est number of choice specimens. The collections are 

 so arranged as to illustrate the development of the 

 various groups represented, and include many entire 

 skeletons of extinct animals, limbs, and other portions 

 of dinosaurs, and a very fine series of specimens show- 

 ing the rise of the horse family. This museum has a 

 fine series of the fossils of New York State, and so 

 has the State Museum at Albany. 



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