To THE Honorable the President and Board of Trustees of 

 THE College of Neiv Jersey: 



Gentlemen : 



I have tJie Jionor to transmit Jicrewith the Palcrontological Report 

 of the College Scientific Expedition of 1877. 



The fossils collected by the Palcrontological party, and deposited by the 

 chief of the expedition in the Geological Mnseiini, consisted of two sets, one 

 numbering some two thousand specimens of fossil plants and insects front 

 the tertiary beds of Central Colorado, the other of a considerable series of 

 fossil 7>ertcbrates, mostly mammals, from the tertiary beds of Wyoming 

 Territory, around Fort Bridger. This last collection has been studied and 

 worked out with unabated seal and diligence by the three post-graduate 

 members of the Palceontological party, Messrs. H. Osborn, W. Scott, and 

 F. Speir, who devoted most of the time of their course to this special work., 

 with ivhat success this Report will sJiow. 



It will be a source of gratification to the generous friends of the Col- 

 lege, who furnished means for the Scientific Expeditioti of 1877, that it not 

 only enriched our Museiun to so great an extent, but did more still by 

 fostering in our College a thorough study of Palceontology, which could 

 not have been undertaken without such means as these thus placed at the 

 disposal of our students. 



The fossil insects and plants have been intrusted to the hands of the 

 best specialists for deter mitiation. Dr. S. Scudder, of Cambridge, Mass., 

 has kindly consented to revise the insects. Prof. G. L. Lequereicx the plants. 



Very Respectfully, 



A. GUYOT, 



Director of the E. M. Museum of Geology and Archceology. 



