396 The American Naturatst. [March, 
enlarged carcass of another, and to found thereon a new genus and 
species for publication in an official monograph. Out of all this is 
evolved a paleontology so untrammeled by scientific conventionalities 
that it is free and spotless from those ugly cross-bars, light shading, and 
simple outlines indicative of missing parts, and quite as free from 
acknowledgment of priority, and recognition of the works and dis- 
coveries of others. But high art paleontology, not content with the 
omission of tell-tale bars and outlines, goes, with its long acquired 
momentum, still farther, and produces plates with such ingenious simi- 
larities and differences that the very elect are deceived by the realistic 
pionta show i in uhe mising parts. These are flanked with text fraught 
d ities that highly-plastered up impressions 

are easily vasa z 
In substantiation of the frequent charges that Professor Marsh pre- 
empts land to shut out other geologists, I am ready to add my weight 
of testimony. More than that, he himself tells of putting hindrances 
in the way of younger geologists, for when one of his workmen said 
one day that ‘‘ Professor Osborn had published a paper with a restora- 
tion of Brontotherium,’’ he came to my room greatly agitated, de- 
claring that Professor Agassiz had simply played him false, having 
promised that Professor Osborn should not see the collections at Harvard 
at all, and then he not only let him see them, but also describe them. 
When a former assistant secured a desirable position, Professor Marsh 
vowed if he had only “known it sooner the man would never have 
gotten that place.’’ Not only does he avoid helping his assistants to 
better positions in geological fields, but he often hinders them by 
trampling on their good names when gone. We assistants watched 
the evolution of a falsehood from his lips, from the day when he said, 
‘that man has resigned ” to the month when he said, “I had to let 
him go ; he was a bad lot,” until still later he ‘‘ dismissed him because 
he was unreliable and light-fingered.’’ Thus it happens that some 
judicious assistants on resigning have shown commendable forethought 
in requiring of him papers, showing that they were not dismissed, as 
protections for their character against evil words and insinuations. 
y his ever-recurring, never-ending expressions of hatred and 
distrust, Professor Marsh methodically tries to fill to saturation the 
minds of his young assistants with prejudice against his contemporary 
in paleontology (Professor Cope). These are but allusions to his 
? When one writes that “ the diplosphene has long been known,” the uninitiated might 
eni SEN that the word had been coined for the occasion, to overthrow a name 
hyposphene,” proposed by a contemporary for a new osteological point. 

