HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



Ichthyosaur 

 Skeletons. 



Exchange 

 Collections. 



Miscellaneous 

 Gifts and 

 Purchases. 



Value of 

 Collections. 



Cretaceous fish, Portheus, and of the toothed bird Hesperornis. 

 Their aggregate cost is $5,787. 



Ninth, a skeleton of Ichthyosaurus with the outlines of the body 

 preserved, from Holzmaden, Wiirttemberg, purchased for $1,000 and 

 presented by Mrs. Jesup in 1908. Three other fine skeletons of the 

 same species have also been purchased. 



Tenth, specimens and collections of fossil vertebrates received in 

 exchange from various European and other foreign museums in 1896 

 to 1909, notably those of London, Paris, Munich, Stuttgart, Tubingen. 

 Basle, Leipzig, Darmstadt, Lyons, Christiania, Bucharest, Buenos 

 Ayres, Adelaide, and in the United States with the Yale, Princeton, 

 University of Kansas, University of California, and other museums. 

 The most important fossils received in this way are skeletons of Ich- 

 thyosaurus (with seven young), Pterodactylus, Ophthalmosaurus, Crypto- 

 clidus, saber-tooth tiger, giant wolf, and casts of skeletons of Hippidium, 

 Macrauchenia, Halitherium, etc. Estimated value, $6,000. 



In addition to these collections are miscellaneous minor gifts and 

 purchases of an aggregate value of probably $5,000. 



The aggregate cost of the collections in this department, not in- 

 cluding the cost of preparation, is as follows, so far as obtainable 

 from the records of the Department: 



Cope collections 



Field expeditions $110,000 



32,000 



20,000 



10,000 



Whitney Collections (including preparation) 15,000 



Warren Collection 30,000 



Sternberg Collections 5,787 



Exchange Collections 6,000 



Miscellaneous 5,000 



$233,787 



If to these should be added the cost of preparation of the speci- 

 mens (which has in past years been largely carried on endowment 



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