..3 
pn 
the 
th- 
CPp. ; 
d they 
un, but 
colored 
?w and 
-.rlption 
lost a 
tuition 
i ean- 
.vJarsh 
thou- 
clence, 
^estrai 
e tapir 
.cys an('t 
•ing that 
z niim«^r- 
.id many 
many gi- 
'ds"; the 
.^ofed ani- 
ormlda))! y 
. serpents: 
and tlie 
. the hird.s 
and the 
s, the first 
^lilted from 
f*?covery 
injT the?5e 
ml liprses. 
" he once 
'ned pri).- 
^ iu.s pu- 
1 the ohl 
••ely un- 
-ced by 
1 asked 
yaorsea 
,pld in reply that the reports to the effect 
mere too unsatif!! actory to be presented 
as facts In science. This remark led me 
on my return to examine the subject my- 
s-'clf, and I have since unearthed no fewer 
thati thirty distinct species of the horse 
tribe; and it ip now, J think, fJreneraUy ad- 
mitted that America is, after all, the origr- 
innl home of the horBe." 
E'xposed the Cardiff Giant. 
It v/a;^ Prf)fofisor Mnrsfi who exposed 
the famou«s Cardiff ^iant. In October^ 
n farmer named Newell, living' near 
<:ar'Uff, N. T.. twelve miles south of Sy- 
ra'-'Tsse, wn^ digging" a, well when he un- 
cxpectefily unearthed a stone jEriant ten 
feet ionjr with a body, head and limbs in 
perfect proportion. It was at once pro- 
i-laimed as the remains of a prehistoric 
n:an, and numbers of scientigts made pii- 
grimagf^B of examination and rejcorded 
their belief in Its very great value as a 
PcientiOc dif?covory. Kveji tlie State geoU 
og-jrti of New York became g-reatly Inter- 
CHied in the giant and endeavored to have 
it ticnr, to the State Museum at Albany, 
Bui. it was finally placed on exhibition at 
Syracuse, where it soon became an at- 
trat tion almost equal to a circuss. 
B^-.ecial tralnr^ were run from the snr- 
roundiu-g- country to accommodate the 
ppppii-' wlio v/ished to f^ec it, and Its 
ownor-^ are said, to have refused an ofter 
of $:-'0!"s,noo in cash for It, although they 
Kubseqiiently parted with a quarter Kharo. 
So important did the relic become in the 
eycH of the scientific world that Professor 
?,iarFh visited Syr;,icuee and mad-e an ex- 
;.imlnation of ihv g-iant. The next day he 
wrcite to a fri'^nd: 
"It in of very re(^t*nt origin, and a most 
decided humlni;;'." 
.H:"' fnuiid th.at the iljfiire had been 
cut from a block of jrypPMni. similar to 
that found iii m^^n^■ rar-^' of New York, 
and a closr ii^.sr>ci-!.!-:i revpriied the nr(\s- 
o n 0 > ' r-: f h 1 J m a 1 1 w o r k in r i n s Yi I p . 
"AS .gyppum is soiubie about 400 
pari.^- ''>*i water. " he wrote, "a very short 
<'XpoLniro would suifice to obliterate all 
traces of tool marks and also to roughen 
the surfaces.'* 
pi t?ilH9l«*» 1'' l*»*Vf. otlVi A^.-t.!.. x\.>ij t.y i .at i^iS vii* 
the sands of time. 
Professor Marsh was also fond of tell- 
ini^ of an encyclopedia nrtfcle which -was 
commended to his attention. The writer, 
wigihinj? to j^lve modern man a graph I o 
idea of the appearance of remote an» 
cc5?tcrs!, had made a restoration of an ex- 
tinct animal Jn flesh and blood, but unfor- 
tunately he had placed the head on th« 
end of the tall. 
Marsh, the Man, 
Personally, Professor Marpsh wore fr-w 
of the conventional airs of the scientist. 
He was a rugged-shouldered, firmly built 
man, a little under medium height, with 
white hair and a full white beard, a hig"h 
forehead rising above a pair of engag:in]^ 
blue eyes. You met him with a goifin^ 
c!^r pulled down comfortabl.s' over his 
head, a lon^r, black coar han/s:inpr loosely 
from his ^boulders, and a bit of color in 
hi?? neckcloth. Me moved with a certain 
ncrvou<5 eupr/ry that b'-\spoke his active 
mind, and upon the firnt provocation ha 
toid you a fUory~and. a vrry g-ood one, 
ton. 
Professor Marsh never married, ^ 
"T have been too busy with my work/' 
he 
in such honor? as fall to men who 
have won divStinction in Fcien^-e Profess- 
f5or Marsh had an unusual share. For 
s^r^ventcen years he was president of the 
National Academy of Science?, perhap** 
the foremost Bcientific society in ..A^mprlca. 
and president of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science. In 
187T he received the f]r5^t of the .Bigsby 
medals from the Geolnprical Sor-jcty of 
London, and last year the Institute of 
France, by presenting" him with the Tli- 
vicr prize, conferred upon him the 8:roat» 
cfA honor that can fall to a scientist. The 
C'uvicr priy.c is awarded ever>- three years 
"for the most remarkable work either 
on the animal kingdom or on geolog-y,** 
Only two other Americans have received 
tbir," diKtinction—A.g-assix and Leidy, th<i 
palcontoiogif't. 
