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sity Museum, where other striking pieces are also to be seen. The 

 United States National Museum is particularly rich in examples 

 of the great, horned Triceratops, while the Carnegie Museum, 

 Pittsburgh, has the best Diplodocus. The United States Na- 

 tional Museum and Yale University have each a mounted skeleton 

 of Stegosaurus. The Field Columbian Museum and the Univer- 

 sities of Wyoming and Colorado have good collections. 



The largest single bone of a Dinosaur is the thigh bone of 

 Brachiosaurus in the Field Columbian Museum, this measuring 

 6 feet 8 inches in length. The height of a complete hind leg of 

 Brontosaurus in the American Museum of Natural History is 10 

 feet, while a single claw measures 6 by 9 inches. The skeleton of 

 Triceratops in the United States National Museum measures 26 

 feet from tip of nose to end of tail and is 10 feet 6 inches to the top 

 of the backbone over the hips, this being the highest point. The 

 head is 6 feet 6 inches long in a straight line and 4 feet 3 inches 

 across the frill. There is a skull in the Yale University Museum 

 even larger than this. 



Numerous technical articles relating to Dinosaurs are scat- 

 tered through various scientific journals, notably in the Memoirs 

 and Bulletins of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 where they may be easily found by the student. 



If the reader wishes to know more about Dinosaurs, where their 

 remains are found and how they are collected, he will find the 

 information in Handbook No. 5, Dinosaurs, by W. D. Matthew, 

 and also in various articles scattered through the pages of the 

 American Museum Journal, Natural History. 



