414 Marsh — Recent Observations on European Dinosaurs. 



Moscow. 

 This opinion was not changed by a visit to the rich geologi- 

 cal collections of Moscow, which I examined with care ; 

 although other fossil vertebrates, including many reptiles, were 

 abundantly represented. I was assured, moreover, by various 

 Russian paleontologists, that in other museums of the empire 

 or in the known localities they had seen no Dinosaurian 

 remains. This vain quest, however, only proves* that the dis- 

 coveries are yet to be made, and I confidently expect them at 

 no distant day, since in almost every other part of the world 

 Dinosauria have already been brought to light. In northern 

 Europe west of Russia, and in North America to the east, 

 these reptiles were especially abundant, and the vast territory 

 intervening must contain numerous Dinosaurs, including many 

 new forms of the group. 



Vienna. 

 In Vienna I knew that my friend Professor Suess had a 

 large collection of Dinosaurs in his museum to show me, and I 

 spent several days there in their investigation. This collection 

 was of special interest to me, as it was from the Gosau fresh- 

 water deposits, which, as a student, years ago, I explored 

 mainly in the expectation of finding Cretaceous mammals ; and 

 I was not without hope of still detecting such remains during 

 my present visit, as here were the localities where they were, 

 in my judgment, most likely to be found in Europe. The 

 Dinosaurs I examined were from Neue Welt in this formation, 

 and were of great interest. They had all been studied by 

 Bunzel, Seeley, and others, who had recognized ten or twelve 

 distinct genera and many species among them. I could find, 

 however, not more than a quarter of this number, and among 

 these I found no indications of the Ceratopsia, which from the 

 published figures and descriptions I supposed to be represented 

 in this collection. The Dinosaurs with dermal armor which I 

 saw, all pertained to the Stegosauria, and two distinct genera 

 among them were more nearly like Scelidosaurus of the Eng- 

 lish Jura, and Noclosaurus of the American Cretaceous, than 

 any others with which I am familiar. This collection con- 

 tained the only Dinosaurian remains I could find in Vienna. 



Munich. 

 I next went to Munich, which, under Professor von Zittel, 

 has become a great center for paleontology. I found that the 

 gem of the collection is still the unique Co?npsognathus, which 

 in several previous visits I had studied with care. A reexam- 

 ination impressed me even more with the fact, that this is one 

 of the most perfect and interesting vertebrate fossils yet dis- 

 covered, and no other example of the genus is known. It was 



