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published figures can give no adequate idea. The remainder of 

 the bones are placed in one of the store-rooms below, and it is not 

 unlikely that a model of the complete skeleton will be prepared and 

 mounted for the forthcoming World's Fair at Chicago. Mauy other 

 portions of Dinosaurs, including Atlantosaurns, Morosaurus, Stego- 

 saurus, etc., are arranged in and upon the adjoining wall-cases ; and a 

 typical series of the enormous dermal plates and spines of Stegosaitms 

 is placed on plaster blocks in one of the table-cases. A large slab 

 from the Cretaceous of Kansas displays the skeleton of a Mosasaurian 

 Eeptile in a condition such as is unknown among its European 

 congeners ; and a single table-case is devoted to a large series of 

 Teleostean fishes from the Green Eiver Shales of Wyoming. 



The nature of the contents of the extensive store-rooms is so well 

 known from the published descriptions and figures of Prof. Marsh, 

 that it is unnecessary to attempt any enumeration. It is only to be 

 regretted that so great a want of space should prevent the materials 

 being arranged in a more accessible manner.. All the smaller 

 specimens are contained in wooden trays, piled up from the floor to 

 the roof in long rows, though all carefully labelled according to the 

 Museum Eegister ; while the larger fossils are placed on the floors 

 and shelves wherever there happens to be an available corner. The 

 latest arrivals, as yet untouched, are also there, wrapped up like 

 mummies in encircling strips of linen and old garments. Other 

 specimens are being extricated from the matrix by the skilful 

 masons — the huge horned Dinosaur, with a head six feet long, 

 undergoing this operation at the time of the writer's visit. The 

 artist is at work in another room, where many of his finest, drawings 

 adorn the walls ; and at present the sifting of fine Laramie material 

 is also in progress, for the recovery of the Mammalian teeth, of 

 which many have been made known by the Professor. Among 

 lower Vertebrates, there is the Eedfield Collection of Triassic Fishes ; 

 and numerous Cretaceous and Tertiary Fish-remains, as yet almost 

 untouched, are scattered through the trays more especially devoted 

 to Eeptilia and Mammalia. 



In this Museum, as at Philadelphia, a series of fragments of the 

 Wealden Dinosaurs from Sussex bears witness to the generosity 

 of Dr. Mantell at the time when such remains excited the wonder of 

 naturalists everywhere and were still unknown in the New World ; 

 and if our American fellow-workers, out of their present riches, 

 reciprocated this gift in proportion, British palaeontologists would 

 already have a fine series of actual specimens for comparison, instead 

 of being compelled to rely entirely upon published descriptions, 

 figures, or casts. 



In conclusion, the writer would tender his best thanks to all 

 whose cordial receptions everywhere added so much to the enjoy- 

 ment of his tour. Even under the most unfavourable circumstances, 

 every facility for study was invariably granted ; and where such large 

 collections have accumulated in so short a space of time the difficulty 

 of convenient arrangement is in nearly all cases considerable. 



