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acceptance of Mr. Carnegie's kind offer to have such a reproduction 

 made for them. The superintendence of this task was congenial 

 labor to him. On the first day of July, 1904, a small company 

 of scientific men and women, together with the Trustees of the 

 Carnegie Institute and a few other guests, had the pleasure of a 

 private view of this restoration, which had been carefully assembled 

 preliminary to shipment to England. The absence of Professor 

 Hatcher from the little company was feelingly alluded to by many. 

 But none of the party dreamed, although he was known to be seri- 

 ously ill, that he was even then sinking into the eternal sleep. 



Mr. Hatcher's position as a paleontologist was unique. He is 

 universally admitted by those who are most competent to pass judg- 

 ment, to have been the best and most successful paleontological 

 collector whom America has ever produced. In saying this it may 

 at once be admitted that he was in all probability the most success- 

 ful collector in his chosen domain who has ever lived. Professor 

 Hatcher and those associated with him under his control during the 

 years of his activity in the field assembled more important vertebrate 

 fossils than have been assembled by any other one man, whose name 

 is known in the records of paleontology. The larger proportion 

 of the choicest vertebrate fossils now in the Peabody Museum at 

 Yale University, in the collection of the United States Geological 

 Survey, in the Museum of Princeton University, and in the Museum 

 of the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh were collected by him. To 

 a very large extent the American methods of collecting such re- 

 mains, which are now universally admitted to be the best methods 

 known, were the product of his experience in the field and of his 

 careful thought. In a letter just received by the writer from Pro^ 

 fessor Henry Fairfield Osborn, the Paleontologist of the United 

 States Geological .Survey, he says, alluding to the death of Professor 

 Hatcher: "I can hardly tell you how shocked and grieved I am. 

 I had often thought of the probability of Hatcher's death while in 

 the field when taking great risks and entirely away from medical 

 and surgical attendance, but of his death at home I had not 

 thought a moment. In his intense enthusiasm for science, and the 

 promotion, of geology and paleontology,, and the tremendous sacri- 

 fices he was prepared to make, and had made, he was a truly rare 

 and. noble spirit, the sort of man that is vastly appreciated in Eng- 



