46 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Tertiary and Quaternary Exhibition Rooms. The faunal series 

 of the two latter rooms can be still further supplemented by the 

 mounting of several nearly perfect skeletons. 



The size of the collection is considerable, filling nearly 1,500 

 trays. More detailed lists have been made out in two series for the 

 use of the Department ; one showing the faunal series comprised 

 by the collection, arranged stratigraphically ; and the other show- 

 ing the extent to which the smaller zoological subdivisions are 

 represented. No record has been kept of the size of the various 

 individual collections, but it may be stated that the bulk of the 

 fossil Reptiles and Mammals are contained in the Garman and 

 Sternberg collections ; and the fossil Fishes in the same, together 

 with the Enniskillen, Stock, and Haeberlein collections. The last 

 two comprise about 60 trays each, or upwards of 3,000 specimens. 

 Much of the material is of great interest, and wholly undescribed. 



The collection as a whole may be considered as a very repre- 

 sentative one. Parts of it could well be increased, especially in cer- 

 tain orders of Mammals. Other parts are not only extremely rich 

 (as, for instance, the Pala3ozoic Fishes, Cretaceous Reptiles, the 

 Proboscidea, etc.), but contain a large number of duplicates, by 

 means of which a profitable exchange may be carried on in the 

 course of time. The older portions of the collection, and most 

 particularly the collection of fossil Fishes, have a very great his- 

 toric interest. The number of type specimens is quite large, and 

 they are exceedingly valuable. A few of Professor Agassiz's 

 types are preserved in the Old Collection, presented to the Mu- 

 seum in 1859. The Bronn, Boucault, de Koninck, Enniskillen, 

 Geinitz, and above all the Schultze Collections, contain specimens 

 of extraordinary interest. A list is appended, for convenience of 

 reference, which is intended to include the name and date of re- 

 ception of all the more important individual collections that have 

 been added to this department since the Museum was founded. 

 Further information in regard to them is preserved in the records 

 of the Department ; and scattered notes, together with lists of 

 minor accessions, may also be found in back numbers of the 

 Annual Reports of the Museum. References to the more im- 

 portant of these reports, and to a few additional sources of infor- 

 mation, are given in the subjoined index. 



According to the Annual Report of 1870 the fossil Vertebrates 

 then belonging to the Museum were numbered and catalogued by 



