390 The American Naturalist. [April, 
author. (Figs. 1, 2.) Another phase of this extensive restoration 
_business is worthy of notice, and is thoroughly culpable. Professor 
“Marsh gave tacit and oft-repeated directions ‘‘ not to da a stroke on a 
Government fossil that was not absolutely necessary.” ‘‘I am not 
doing missionary work for the Government,” ‘‘ They can do the 
fancy work at the National Museum; we will only work them out just 
enough to see what they are, and they can do the rest there.’’ But 
bear in mind that all this time he was doing home missionary work on 
his own private collections, and at Government expense too; restoring, 
and embellishing, and mounting them on plaster bases and other sup- 
ports ready for exhibition. ‘‘ Life was too short’’ to give a Govern- 
ment specimen more than a lick and a promise, but quite long enough 
to devote months and years of Government time and money in 
beautifying his own private collections, and that too when they had 
all been drawn, and lithographed, and all the measurements had been 

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heightens the realistic effect of the missing parts.) 
taken, and the necessary notes made, so that not a single excuse 
remained for squandering the Government appropriation in garnishing 
and adorning his own particular specimens for impressive display in 
his own particular museum. This abuse of public trust led us to 
frequent and spirited disagreements and our relations became exceed- 
ingly snuhed; and still more so when I refused to add to the crime of 
t time that of deceiving in the restorations. 
For he not only wished to have the deceptive plaster used in the 
restorations, but insisted on having the bones so modeled as to exactly 
correspond with the lithographic plates already drawn, and that too 
after being repeatedly informed that to secure this similarity would 
necessitate distorting and even breaking the fossils. 
Once when I frankly gave him my opinion of this wholesale misuse 
of the Government men and money for his own personal benefit, he 


