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many years before any of the younger 

 generation of paleontologists who survive 

 him can hope to acquire the information of 

 these various groups- which he possessed. 

 It was his intention and special desire to 

 embody this knowledge in separate mono- 

 graphs, to be published by the eological 

 Survej^ several of which were in an ad- 

 vanced state of completion at the time of 

 his death. He had also projected extended 

 works upon other groups. The volumes 

 which he had mapped out and already done 

 a considerable amount of work upon were 

 as follows : The Sauropoda, Theropoda and 

 Ornithopoda, to be in three separate volumes 

 representing the three great divisions of 

 the Dinosauria. Last year the Geological 

 Survey issued a preliminary volume from 

 him on the Korth American Dinosaurs. 

 He also had a volume projected upon the 

 Mesozoic Mammalia and one upon the Bron- 

 totheridfe. 



The scientific world at large had a just 

 appreciation of his merits, and he was largely 

 rewarded by many marks of distinguished 

 consideration. He was elected a member 

 of nearly every scientific society of note in 

 Europe and America. In 1875 he was 

 elected Vice-President of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science, 

 and in the year following he became Presi- 

 dent. In 1877 he received the Bigsby Medal 

 from the Geological Society of London for 

 the most distinguished researches in geology 

 and paleontology. In 1882 he was chosen 

 President of the National Academy of 

 Sciences, a position which he held for two 

 terms of six years each. In the same year 

 he was chosen Paleontologist of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, a position which he held 

 for ten years. He was also made honorary 

 Curator of Paleontology in the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum, and held this position at his 

 death. In 1886 the University of Heidel- 

 berg conferred on him the degree of Ph.D., 

 and in the same year Harvard gave him an 



LL.D. Last year he was made a corre- 

 sponding member of the French Academy, 

 and later he was announced as the winner 

 of the Cuvier prize, one of the most distin- 

 guished honors ever conferred upon an 

 American professor. 



In his younger days he was a man of 

 tremendous energy and spent much of his 

 time in the field exploring for fossils, fre- 

 quently far from the outposts of civilization. 

 These expeditions were often attended with 

 many hardships, and at times no small 

 amount of risk to his personal safety,- but 

 wherever a new field oflfered opportunities 

 for adding something novel, calculated to 

 advance the knowledge of his science, no 

 expense, hardship or danger could deter 

 him from undertaking its exploration. The 

 methods of collecting and preparing these 

 fossils for study and exhibition which he 

 has introduced in the course of his long ex- 

 perience forms the basis very largely of all 

 similar work in almost every paleontolog- 

 ical laboratory of the world, and it is a 

 matter of common remark that nearly all 

 the noted collectors and preparateurs have 

 received their training under his immediate 

 influence. 



The vast collections on this subject which" 

 he has brought together are without doubt 

 the finest and most complete of any in the 

 world, and, when properly installed and ex- 

 hibited, will make a monument in every 

 way worthy of the greatness of the man 

 who dedicated his life and his fortune to its 

 formation. The influence of his work for 

 advancement in this department of knowl- 

 edge has probably had no equal in any 

 country, and it is to be hoped that his 

 splendid example of unselfish devotion to 

 the cause of education will not be allowed 

 to go unheeded. 



j. l. woetman. 



American Museum of Natural 



History, New york. 



