108 ANIMALS OF THE PAST 



Such were some of the strange and mighty 

 animals that once roamed this continent from 

 the valley of the Connecticut, where they liter- 

 ally left their footprints on the sands of time, 

 to the Rocky Mountains, where the ancient 

 lakes and rivers became cemeteries for the en- 

 tombment of their bones. 



The labor of the collector has gathered their 

 fossil remains from many a Western canyon, 

 the skill of the preparator has removed them 

 from their stony sepulchres and the study of 

 the anatomist has restored them as they were 

 in life. 



REFERENCES. 



Most of our large museums have on exhibition fine 

 specimens of many Dinosaurs.^ comprising skulls, limbs, 

 and large portions of their skeletons. The American 

 Musenm of Natural History, New York, has the largest 

 and finest display. The first actual skeleton of a Dino- 

 saur to he mounted in this country was the splendid Clao- 

 saurus at the Yale University Museum, where other strik- 

 ing pieces are also to be seen. The mounting of this 

 Claosaurus, which is 29 feet long and 13 feet high, took 

 an entire year. The United States National Museum is 



