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one of the noble relics of God's creative power 

 in the past. Our laboratory is Holy Ground. 

 The earth is a great plant, from which, for count- 

 less millions of years the Creator has been turn- 

 ing out the creatures of his hand. Each, "having 

 seed in itself." It is discouraging when I think 

 of the multitudes that throng our Exhibition 

 Hall, to know how few carry any thing away 

 with them. They simply satisfy a curiosity, with 

 little conception of the enormous energy the col- 

 lector and preparator expend, in heart breaking 

 months of exploration, and nerve trying labor in 

 the shop. Yet some are really interested, I re- 

 member talking for an hour or more in shop and 

 exhibition hall, with a minister of the Church of 

 England. When he left he remarked "I feel as 

 if I had been talking with God" so closely had I 

 led him to Nature's great heart. When after 

 months of anxiety and labor we get a specimen 

 mounted permanently for study or exhibition, 

 we are relieved of a strain few can comprehend. 

 The nearly complete skeleton of Stephanosaurus 

 of Lambe, or Gorythosaurus, of Brown is seen in 

 (Fig. 16). The front limbs, the shoulders, and 

 half the trunk has been covered and separated 

 into two sections. I am sitting down to the right 

 at work on the less perfect specimen. With a 

 little restoration, however, both individuals can 

 be made into fine mounts. What is missing in 

 one, can be supplied by making casts of the parts 

 present in the other. A vast amount .of labor 



