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York. Among miscellaneous European fossils is the type-specimen 

 of Semionotus Nilssorii, Ag., from Sweden ; and most British and 

 Continental horizons are well represented by typical species. From 

 the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland there is the fine collection of 

 Mr. Thomas Stock ; and from the Coal-measures of Yorkshire is 

 a small series collected by Mr. Percy Sladen. One of the Haeberlein 

 Collections furnishes a great number of beautiful fishes from the 

 Bavarian Lithographic Stone ; and there are many drawers of 

 Tertiary fishes obtained from various sources. The most precious 

 of all European collections, however, is that of Schultze from the 

 Devonian of the Eifel, which is in many respects unique. In this 

 are preserved the type-specimens of H. von Meyers Physichthys 

 Hoeninghausi, pi - oving that that supposed genus and species is 

 founded upon remains of three distinct genera (Macropetalichthys, 

 Pterichthys, and Ptyctodus) ; there are also many examples of Schliiter's 

 Ceraspis, which are more suggestive of an ally of Asterolepis than 

 of a Pteraspidian ;. and a number of sigmoidal detached teeth are 

 indistinguishable from those of the " intermandibular arch " of 

 Onychodns. In the basement of the Museum, Mr. Samuel Garnian. 

 has the large collection of recent fishes, amphibians, and reptiles 

 under his charge ; and here is the original example of the antique 

 Shark, Chlamydoselache, described in his well-known memoir. 



Yale University, New Haven. 



Of the Peabody Museum in Yale University only one wing is as 

 yet erected, and the enormous collections are thus crowded together 

 in an almost inaccessible manner. The Palasontological Depai'tment, 

 under the direction of Prof. Marsh, occupies by far the greatest 

 space ; for here is preserved not only the well-known collection of 

 the Professor himself, but also that of the present U.S. Geological 

 Survey made under his direction. The former is destined to remain 

 in its present " location," while the latter will be forwarded in 

 instalments to the National Museum, Washington, as the various 

 groups are investigated and described. 



Only one public gallery is devoted to the exhibition of the 

 American extinct Vertebrata ; and, as in the case of the Cambridge 

 Museum, merely a few prominent types of each great group are 

 selected for representation. The greater portion of the skeleton of a 

 finely-preserved Mastodon occupies the first wall-case on the Mam- 

 malian side of the gallery ; and this is followed by tolerably complete 

 series of bones of various genera and species of Brontotheriidaa and 

 Dinocerata. The skulls and examples of the dentition are especially 

 fine, and all the more massive specimens are mounted upon plaster 

 bases for support. A few small feet illustrate some stages in the 

 history of the Equidae, though the series is not so complete as 

 an ordinary visitor would desire ; and another table-case contains 

 the type-collection of the now well-known birds with teeth, from 

 the Kansas Chalk. Immediately opposite the entrance, spread out 

 upon the floor, are some of the limb-bones, the sacrum, and caudal 

 vertebras, of the huge Brontosaurus, of whose dimensions the reduced 



