Animals Befwe Man 



The United States National Museum contains the 

 best example of Zeuglodon yet discovered, some fine 

 skulls and other portions of the great Triceratops, a 

 remarkably full series of skulls of titanotheres, illus- 

 trating their development, and a skeleton of the 

 toothed bird Hesperornis. It also has on exhibition 

 series of invertebrates specially arranged and labeled 

 for students, and the specimens of jellyfishes used 

 by Mr. Walcott in writing his monograph on Fossil 

 Medusae. 



Yale University Museum contains the complete 

 skeleton of Claosaurus, the first dinosaur to be mounted 

 in this country, and some unusually fine examples of 

 parts of the skeletons of the gigantic sauropoda. 

 These are of interest, moreover, as being the first 

 good examples of these reptiles collected in this coun- 

 try. Of invertebrates it has an unusually fine series of 

 brachiopods, trilobites, and sponges. 



The Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Mass., is particularly rich in examples of the early 

 fishes, though these do not make much show. 



The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, and the Field 

 Columbian Museum, Chicago, each have good speci- 

 mens of the large dinosaurs, and the first-named insti- 

 tution has a fairly complete skeleton of Diplodocus, 

 that will be placed on exhibition as soon as possible. 



Most of our colleges have collections of fossils, and 

 some of them have very fine collections. Thus Am- 



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