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rations in Switzerland and the Tyrol, which resulted in some dis- 

 coveries of interest. Entering Breslau University later, he spent 

 the winter studying under Roemer, Grube, and Goeppert. He 

 was again at Berlin, in the spring of 1865, but soon after went to 

 Paris, making frequent stops en route in order to visit various 

 museums and important geological localities. A little later, while 

 working in the British Museum, Marsh became acquainted with 

 Dr. Henry Woodward, Keeper of Geology, the warm friendship 

 that ensued lasting throughout life. 



After joining Mr. Peabody in Ireland for the purpose of salmon 

 fishing, Marsh sailed from Queenstown for Boston in August, 

 1865, and soon after his arrival in this country began a systematic 

 study of American geology as then known, devoting the autumn 

 to the investigation of characteristic localities in New York, 

 Ohio, and Kentucky. 



That a fair idea may be gained of Marsh's early environment 

 and subsequent training, prominence has here been given the 

 events of his life leading up to the time of entering on the career 

 in which he was to achieve signal success in many lines, and by 

 means of which he earned a place among renowned scholars in 

 the world of science. He was already a skilled explorer, an enthusi- 

 astic collector, and a promising scientific writer when he accepted 

 the Chair of Paleontology at Yale College, to which he was ap- 

 pointed at Commencement, 1866. Equipped with the best prepa- 

 ration afforded by the institutions of this country and of Germany, 

 and endowed with ability, energy, and perseverance, he assumed 

 the duties of a professorship apparently the first established in 

 that branch of science. In the absence of Professor Dana, he 

 began his college work by giving instruction in geology to the senior 

 class, continuing this with succeeding classes for several years. 

 But he did not wish to make his professorship a teaching one, 

 and preferred to serve Yale without salary in order that his time 

 might be devoted to research and exploration. During the last 

 years of his life, however, he delivered a few lectures on vertebrate 

 paleontology, and also directed the work of several graduate 

 students. 



