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dont on which he was to be feeding was fast fall- 

 ing away from me in the face of such opinions 

 by the greatest of our paleontologists. When we 

 reached New York we met in the American 

 Museum, the President, Dr. Henry F. Osborn, 

 Dr. Mathews the Curator of Vertebrate FossUs, 

 and his assistants, Mr. Granger and Barnum 

 Brown. Dr. Osborn gave the opinion that was 

 held by all the others, that we should mount it 

 as we found it, clearing away the rock so all the 

 bones stand out from their matrix, but held in it, 

 except where limb-bones might cover some other 

 bones; in which case they must be removed and 

 mounted clear. I had not a foot to stand on, 

 when I visited the authority on dinosaurs, Dr. 

 Lull of Yale. He took us out to lunch and agreed 

 with the other students, without question. I was 

 glad indeed, therefore to reconsider my first 

 opinion and recommend to the Director of the 

 Geological Survey, that we should mount it as 

 the paleontologists had indicated, as I believe 

 this would be a world specimen in which all stu- 

 dents of ancient life would be interested. Mr. 

 Lambe agreeing with this opinion also. 



Charlie spent the greater part of eight months, 

 including the winter of 1913, in preparing it. 

 There is a great deal more to do before it is final- 

 ly mounted permanently in the Museum at Ot- 

 tawa. Mr. Lambe, the Vertebrate Palentologist 

 of the Geological Survey of Canada, has called 

 this noted specimen Gotyosaurus libratus, or in 



