414 Othniel Charles Marsh. 



the most interesting series known of Nova-Scotian Zeolites. 

 These were mainly collected by Marsh, before he was gradu- 

 ated at Yale, during six expeditions to Nova Scotia. 



Besides the six main collections named, there are several 

 others of less value, which include fossil plants, casts of fossils, 

 geological specimens, and recent zoological material. 



To these should be added the results of his last work in 

 endeavoring to increase the scope of the material in the Pea- 

 body Museum. For many years it was his desire to secure a 

 collection of fossil Cycads, and when the opportunity offered, 

 he embraced it with characteristic vigor, so that within the 

 last year and a half the Museum has received an amount of 

 material which in importance and quantity is second to none. 



From their extensive and varied nature, these collections thus 

 presented to the University will long afford abundant material 

 for original investigations, and will ever attract to JSTew Haven 

 specialists in Paleontology and Archeology. 



Professor Marsh's life was remarkably free from the petty 

 annoyances of poor health which so often interfere with human 

 comfort and ambitions. In the midst of his scientific work 

 and while making plans for the growth of the Museum, he 

 was suddenly overtaken by the malady which resulted in his 

 death. He died of pneumonia, on March 18th, 1899, in his 

 sixty-eighth year, after an illness of about a week. His work 

 as an investigator in natural science, his wonderful scientific 

 collections, and his munificence to Yale, are his legacies to 

 the higher education of mankind. 



Although Marsh was an ardent collector in Archeology, he 

 published very little on this subject, and his paper (1866) on 

 an Ancient Sepulchral Mound near Newark, Ohio, is practi- 

 cally the only one. His three mineralogical papers, published 

 between 1861 and 1867, show the results of considerable labor 

 and careful investigation. They treat of the Gold of Nova 

 Scotia, a Zeolite mineral from the same region, and a catalogue 

 of the mineral localities of the maritime provinces of Canada. 



In the field of Invertebrate Paleontology, he likewise was an 

 indefatigable accumulator of material, though after 1869 he 



