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Title: The American Museum of Natural History : its origin, its history, the growth of its departments to December 31, 1909
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo Huntington Free Library. fmo
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York : Irving Press
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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it is iden-tified, much of it having been gathered during the Survey of New YorkState. Large collections had also been made from the Western Statesfor the purpose of fixing the New York geological nomenclature. Itcomprised 80,000 to 100,000 specimens, including about 7,000 types andfigured specimens. The acquisition of this collection placed the Museumin the lead among American institutions in respect to Paleozoic fossils.Especially noteworthy in the Hall Collection, aside from the New Yorkseries, are the Potsdam fossils from Minnesota; Trenton forms fromWisconsin and Iowa; Niagara fossils from Indiana; corals from thefalls of the Ohio River; crinoids from Burlington, Iowa; and the LowerCarboniferous fauna of Spergen Hill, Indiana. The price paid for theHall Collection was $65,000, $40,000 of which was specially subscribedby the Trustees and friends of the Museum. The dupUcates wereseparated into the collections, some of which were sold, others used inexchange for other material. (42)
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05 o I 00 K H Og 3O s o H o»3 <! PL, E^H Q!>- ao>jo■A o o1-1 X o GO <! PSI—( taO GEOLOGY AND FOSSIL INVERTEBRATES The Holmes Collection of fossils of South Carolina, vertebrate and Holmesinvertebrate, from the Pliocene and Postpliocene periods, was purchasedin 1873 from Professor Francis S. Holmes. It included the types ofthe species described in Tuomey and Holmess works. In 1878 valuable geological material was received from ProfessorC. H. Hitchcock in exchange for two series of Hall duplicates. It Hitchcockcontained a complete set of Vermont and New Hampshire rocks, ° ^^^numbering about 2,000, illustrating the geological survey of thoseStates under the direction of Professor Hitchcock; types of Tertiaryplants from Brandon, Vermont; also rocks and fossils from Maine. The collection of rocks and fossils gathered by the United StatesSurvey of the 40th parallel was received on deposit in 1878. It con-tained 3,523 fossils, 3,880 rocks, and also 2,800 micro

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