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lo advance our science rapidly, complete articu- 

 lated skeletons, should be left in the original 

 rock in which they were buried. The scattered 

 skeletons and those well known might be exhibit- 

 ed in open mounts. 



At Philadelphia, I saw Dr. Nolan who has 

 been the Secretary of the Philadelphia Academy 

 of Science since he was first elected in 1876. He 

 thought a slab mount the most impressive, and 

 could not realie how any one would think of 

 mounting it otherwise. Then we traveled out to 

 Princeton, and this was the first and only time 

 I have been there. I greatly enjoyed their mag- 

 nificent collection. I was especially interested in 

 Waterhouse Hawkins' paintings on the ceilings, 

 of troops of Laclaps, or duck-billed dinosaurs run- 

 ning on their powerful hind limbs, carrying their 

 huge tails clear of the ground — a pose that many 

 paleontological artists stick to with amazing 

 tenacity. I have proved over and over again that 

 these animals were swimmers. We were invited 

 to the home of Prof. W. B. Scott, and after I told 

 him the condition of our carnivore, he at once 

 said the bones should not be taken out of the mat- 

 rix. He instanced the case of the great collec- 

 tion of Iguanodonts in the Brussels Museum, 

 some thirty individuals. Many mounted in their 

 rocky sepulchers. Our carnivpre should lie as 

 we found him on a slabe in bold relief. I must 

 confess that my original idea that it should be 

 mounted over the partial skeleton of a Tracho- 



