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the Bad Lands and other portions of the Upper Missouri 

 country. In this collection were fourteen specimens of 

 extinct fossil turtles, the remains of the gigantic Titano- 

 therium, two species of extinct rhinoceros, a hyena, and 

 two species of Oreodon. In the geological department 

 were also rocks, mineral and ores collected by Dr. Wis- 

 lizenus during his exploration of northern Mexico; cre- 

 taceous and tertiary fossils obtained by Dr. Koch while 

 Zeuglodon hunting in Mississippi and Arkansas ; fossils 

 from the carboniferous and cretaceous formations of 

 Texas and New Mexico ; a series of rocks and fossils col- 

 lected by the expedition of Lieutenant Bryan on his sur- 

 vey of a wagon route from Kansas to Utah in 1860-61; 

 and type specimens of fossils from the Upper Missouri, 

 collected by Lieutenant Gr. K. Warren. 



In the mineralogical department were over twelve hun- 

 dred specimens of minerals from various parts of the 

 United States and a collection of meteorites, among them 

 the Fort Pierre meteorite, found about twenty miles 

 from Fort Pierre and brought to St. Louis by the Amer- 

 ican Fur Company in 1857. When found it weighed 

 thirty-five pounds. A section of this meteorite is still in 

 the Academy museum. 



In the museum of the Academy were also housed choice 

 suites of reptiles, skulls and skins of mammals from the 

 Platte River country and other portions of the Rocky 

 Mountains; bird skins collected by Captain John Pope 

 in California, Texas and New Mexico; mounted speci- 

 mens of grizzly bear, Rocky Mountain sheep and goats, 

 heads of buffalo, specimens of several species of deer 

 and various smaller animals from the Rocky Mountain 

 region; several hundred birds donated by the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Smithsonian 

 Institution in exchange for other specimens; unusually 

 fine specimens of skeletons and crania of over one hun- 

 dred species of mammals, birds and reptiles, and the fine 

 collection of Dr. Pope of choice mounted skeletons of 

 mammals purchased in Europe; several hundred plants 



