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monton and Belly River series of the Red Deer 

 River, Alberta, no man can measure the wonders 

 of her "Animals of the Past." How grand for 

 science, to have such a man as Professor Osboru 

 its President, a man who has given his life 

 and wealth to augment its riches from "The 

 Story of the Past," and those other men like Mor- 

 ris Jessup, who have given their millions into 

 the treasury. I was proud indeed when I entered 

 her walls to know that the nucleus of those vast 

 collections was the "Cope Collection," and to re- 

 member that I had been a contributer to that 

 collection for seven years of the best, if not the 

 most fruitful years of my life. I saw here the 

 strange ladder-spined lizard I collected in the 

 Permian of Texas, part of my John Day River 

 Collection of Oregon, etc. But what pleased me 

 most were the more perfect specimens of a horned 

 and duck-billed dinosaur from Wyoming, and the 

 great fish Portheus. Here lies the prepared speci- 

 men of George' sTrachodc/nannectens, wrapped in 

 its skin as in a mantle. Here, too, in the Inverte- 

 brate Department, is the great Inoceramus shell 

 3' 4"x3' 7" in size. The second shell of these 

 huge dimensions I sent to Tiilingen University. 

 Although they strew the rocks of the Kansas 

 chalk in great numbers, they are always broken 

 into small pieces, and these are scattered by the 

 winds of heaven. It seems impossible to pro- 

 serve them. But George and I learned the 

 secret, and after finding a shell with lips or hinge 



