HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



Cope 



Collection of 

 Fossil 

 Reptiles, etc. 



Whitney 



Horse 



Collection. 



Warren 

 Collection. 



Sternberg 

 Collections. 



Museum at a cost of $10,000 in 1899 by Messrs. Havemeyer, Dodge, 

 James, Iselin, Constable, and Osborn, Trustees of the Museum. This 

 collection contains a fine series of skeletons of ground-sloths, glyptodons, 

 saber-tooth tiger, and other extinct South American mammals, of high 

 exhibition value. 



Fifth, the Cope Collection of Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and 

 Fishes of North America, presented to the Museum in 1902 by Presi- 

 dent Jesup at a cost of $20,000. It includes magnificent skeletons of 

 the amphibious, carnivorous, and duck-billed dinosaurs, a splendid 

 series of the ancient reptiles and amphibians of the Permian Period, 

 and other specimens of high scientific and exhibition value. 



Sixth, the Whitney Collections of Fossil and Recent Horses, ob- 

 tained and prepared in 1901-3 by Western expeditions sustained 

 through a special fund of $15,000 provided by the late William C. 

 Whitney. This includes a splendid series of skeletons, skulls, etc., 

 of extinct and living horses, illustrating the Evolution of the Horse 

 in Nature and under Domestication. This exhibit has since been 

 much expanded and improved by specimens presented or through 

 funds provided by Messrs. Randolph Huntington, James R. Keene, 

 Frank K. Sturgis, George J. Gould, Arthur Curtiss James, Percy R. 

 Pyne, Francis R. Appleton, and Henry F. Osborn. 



Seventh, the Warren Collection, brought together by Professor 

 J. Collins Warren of Harvard University in 1840-55, and purchased 

 for the Museum from his heirs by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1906 at a cost 

 of $30,000. It includes the famous (Warren) Mastodon, the most per- 

 fect skeleton of an extinct elephant ever discovered; also a skeleton 

 of the extinct cetacean Zeuglodon, a collection of Dinosaur footprints, 

 and other valuable specimens. 



Eighth, various choice specimens of fossil vertebrates from Kansas, 

 Wyoming, and Texas, purchased from Mr. Charles H. Sternberg and 

 presented by Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, Mr. Charles Lanier, and others, or 

 purchased through general endowment funds. The most remark- 

 able of these specimens are the mummified skeleton of a duck-billed 

 dinosaur, a fine skull of the horned dinosaur, a skeleton of the great 



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