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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; ere- 
taceous and tertiary fossils obtained by Dr. Koch while 
Zeuglodon hunting in Mississippi and Arkansas; fossils 
from the carboniferous and ecretaceous 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 G. 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 
