1 1 2 Life of a Fossil Hunter 



has required the labor of Mr. H. T. Martin the 

 larger part of a year, and is as finally mounted, an 

 example of great labor and skill on his part. . . . 

 The skeleton, as mounted, is just ten feet in length. 

 The neck in life must have been thick and heavy at 

 the base. The trunk was broad; the abdominal re- 

 gion short between the girdles; the short tail was 

 thick at its base. The species was named in honor 

 of Professor H. F. Osborn, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity." 



In his introduction Dr. Williston speaks of the 

 -great scientific value of this specimen of the plesio- 

 saurian family, of which he says: "Thirty-two 

 species and fifteen genera have been described from 

 the United States, and in not a single instance has 

 there been even a considerable part of the skeleton 

 made known." 



I am glad that the University of Kansas owns 

 this splendid denizen of her ancient Cretaceous sea. 



My collection in the Royal Museum of Munich is 

 said by Dr. H. F. Osborn to be the finest prepared 

 collection of Kansas Chalk and Texas Permian ver- 

 tebrates in the world. A recent letter from my friend 

 Dr. Broili, an assistant there, says that the collection 

 contains over eighty-five distinct species of extinct 

 vertebrates. Among these, there are eighteen 

 species and seven genera new to science. Seven 

 papers have been published describing this material, 



