240 Ohituarij— Professor 0. C. Marsh. 



importance in his lifework. Such wonderful forms of terrestrial 

 reptiles as he has discovered, e.g., Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, 

 Triceratops, Claosaurus, AncMsanrus, Ceratosaurus, Diplodocus, and 

 many others, either by their size or peculiar characters, have 

 produced a more powerful impression on the public mind than 

 almost any of the other discoveries of modern science. 



From 1868 to 1890 scientific expeditions were organized to explore 

 and collect fossils in the Eocky Mountain districts, resulting in the 

 bringing to Yale of more than a thousand species of vertebrata ; 

 more than 400 of which have been described by Professor Marsh. 

 He is said to have crossed the Eocky Mountains thirty times on these 

 expeditions, and, although he may not have crossed the Atlantic 

 quite so often, he was a very frequent visitor to England and the 

 Continent, and his relations with men of science here were of the 

 friendliest kind : witness the award to him of the first Bigsby Medal 

 in 1877 by the Council of the Geological Society, who also elected 

 him a Foreign Member in 1898. 



Of the struggles for priority and other personal scientific 

 squabbles which embittered some years of his life we need not 

 now speak ; over the silent grave we may only remember with 

 gratitude the vast services to science which Marsh lived to perform. 



By his will he leaves his entire estate to Yale University, with the 

 exception of 10,000 dollars to the National Academy of Sciences, to 

 promote original scientific research. Even his home and residence 

 are left to the Yale University, to be used as a Botanic Garden and 

 Laboratory. He is estimated to have expended 250,000 dollars on 

 collecting the fossils which he gave to the Yale Museum a year 

 ago. His estate will probably realize 100,000 dollars. (It should 

 be also mentioned that during the thirty-three years in which 

 Professor Marsh held the Chair of Palgeontology in Yale, he 

 received no salary for his services.) 



A sum of 30,000 dollars is left to the Trustees of the Peabody 

 Museum, to pay for the preparation and publishing of the results of 

 his explorations. In this case we may reverse the verdict of 

 Shakespeare and say, 



" The ffood men do lives after them." 



I cannot help quoting a few words from Marsh's last letter, dated 

 Yale, March 10th, 1899: — "I did not intend to distribute many of 

 these [casts] until after my monographs were published, but 

 considering what confusion there seems to be in your country on 

 the subject [of the Dinosauria], good casts of the characteristic 

 American specimens might help on the missionary work of scientific 

 instruction, and thus aid in bringing still nearer together our two 

 countries." 



It seems sad that he, who was with us at the August meeting 

 of the International Zoological Congress at Cambridge, and the 

 subsequent meeting of the British Association at Bristol, in 

 September, reading and discussing papers there, should now have 

 passed over to the great majority and that we should see his face 

 no more. H. W. 



