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cause we secured a large carload of rhinoceros 

 bones, but also because we had with us Mr. J. B. 

 Hatcher, who afterwards helped to build up three 

 great museums of vertebrate paleontology, the 

 museums of Yale and Princeton and the Carnegie 

 Museum. With the last he was connected at the 

 time of his death in 1904, just twenty years after he 

 made his first collection of vertebrate fossils with 

 me. A bright, earnest student, he gave promise of 

 a future even then by his perfect understanding of 

 the work in hand and the thoughtful care which he 

 devoted to it. I have always been glad that I had 

 the honor of being his first teacher in the practical 

 work of collecting, although he soon graduated 

 from my department, and requested me to let him 

 take one side of the ravine while I worked the other. 

 He employed Mr. Overton's son with a plow and 

 scraper, and got out a magnificent collection with no 

 further instructions from me. 



That same year Professor Marsh came to my 

 quarry and leased it from the owner, and I never 

 saw it again until 1905, when I came into my own 

 once more, and in addition to the splendid mastodon, 

 mentioned earlier in this chapter, found the material 

 for two perfect mounts of the rhinoceros. One is 

 to be mounted at Munich, the other at Bonn. 



With Professor Osborn's consent, I give a photo- 

 graph of the fine specimen (Fig. 25) which Dr. 



