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by J. C. Merriam, A. R. Crook, Charles R. Eastman, 

 F. B. Loomis, F. Broili, L. Neumayer, and L. 

 Strickler, respectively; and it has been illustrated 

 by forty plates. The lamented German paleon- 

 tologist, Dr. Carl von Zittel, under whom I served 

 the Munich museum for several years, wrote me that 

 I had erected here " an immemorial monument " to 

 my name. 



Here rests, far from its native shores, the most 

 complete skeleton of the Cretaceous shark, Oxyrhina 

 mantelli Agassiz, ever discovered in any formation. 

 It formed the basis for the inaugural address de- 

 livered by Charles R. Eastman before the Ludwig- 

 Maximilian University of Munich. 



I discovered this specimen while conducting an 

 expedition for Dr. von Zittel. I was entirely alone, 

 and camping on one of the ravines that score the 

 southern slope of the Smoky Hill valley, south of 

 Buffalo Park. I had already found a number of 

 flattened disks, the centra of fish vertebrae, which 

 Dr. Williston had assured me belonged to a species 

 of shark, as he had found teeth associated with 

 them. I was delighted, therefore, to find here a 

 continuous string of them leading into a low knoll. 

 I quickly shoveled away the loose chalk and cleaned 

 up the floor, to find the whole column, nearly twenty 

 in length; while the skull was represented by great 

 plates of cartilaginous bone, containing some two 



