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and description, or for the work of others 

 designated by me. 



(3) At my decease, and forever after, 

 these collections shall be under the charge 

 of the Trustees of the Peabody Museum 

 and their successors, and in the special 

 custody of Curators recommended by them 

 and appointed by the Corporation of Yale 

 University. 



(4) The type specimens and others of 

 special importance in these collections shall 

 not be removed from the Museum building. 

 Less valuable specimens, however, espe- 

 cially duplicates, may be so removed by vote 

 of the Trustees of the Museum. 



From a scientific point of view, the value 

 of the collections now presented to Yale 

 is beyond price, each one containing many 

 specimens that can never be duplicated, and 

 already of historical interest in the annals 

 of science. 



Among the prominent features of one 

 of these collections, that of extinct verte- 

 brates, may be mentioned (1) the series of 

 fossils illustrating the genealogy of the 

 horse, as made out by Professor Marsh, 

 and accepted by Huxley, who used it as 

 the basis of his New York lectures ; (2) the 

 Birds with teeth, nearly two hundred indi- 

 viduals, described in Professor Marsh's 

 well-known monograph ' Odontornithes ; ' 



(3) the gigantic Dinocerata, several hun- 

 dred in number. Eocene mammals de- 

 scribed in his monograph on this group ; 



(4) the Brontotheridse, huge Miocene mam- 

 mals, some two hundred in number ; (5) 

 Pterodactyles, or flying dragons, over six 

 hundred in number; (6) the Mosasaurs, or 

 Cretaceous sea-serpents, represented by 

 more than fifteen hundred individuals ; 

 (7) a large number of Dinosaurian reptiles, 

 some of gigantic size. Besides there are 

 various other groups of Mammals, Birds 

 and Reptiles, most of them including 

 unique specimens. 



The resolutions of the Corporation of 



Yale University, accepting Professor 

 Marsh's gift, and showing their apprecia- 

 tion of his services to the University, are 

 given below : 



Yale TJniveesity, January 13, 1898. 



The President and Fellows having received a deed 

 of gift from Professor Othniel C. Marsh, presenting to 

 the University his very valuable collections now in 

 the Peabody Museum, which represent the labor of 

 many years on his part and also the expenditure of a 

 large amount from his personal fortune, desire, as 

 they accept the gift, to communicate to him and to 

 place on record an expression of their grateful ac- 

 knowledgment of his generosity. 



In this grateful acknowledgment they are confident 

 that all the graduates and friends of Yale will unite, 

 when they learn of this most recent manifestation of 

 his long-continued interest in the University, even 

 as they already fully appreciate the unselfish devotion 

 of his time, his talents and his energies, for more 

 than thirty years, to the scientific researches which 

 have given him such personal distinction and have 

 brought such renown to the institution. 



Timothy Dwight, 



President. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 

 II. 

 Note on Lepidophloios CUftonensis. Sir Wil- 

 liam Dawson, Montreal, Canada. 

 In the Bulletin of this Society for May, 

 1891, appeared a paper by the author on 

 * Fossils from the Carboniferous of New- 

 foundland,' including new species oiLepido- 

 dendron {L. Murrayanium) . In connection 

 with this species I noticed what seemed a 

 closely allied form from New Brunswick, 

 which I had named L. Cliftonense. Later 

 studies of this species have shown me that 

 it should should rather be placed in the 

 allied genus Lepidophloios. I have so placed 

 it in a more recent paper on the genus in 

 the present year. It should, therefore, be 

 named Lepidophloios CUftonensis, but is one 

 of the species of that genus nearest to Lepi- 

 dodendron, and especially to my L. Murray- 

 anium and to L. IVortheni, of Lesquereux, as 

 I have already stated in the paper to which 

 this note is an addendum and erratum. 



