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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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s in 1878. Third, the collection of North American Fossil Mammals broughttogether by Professor E. D. Cope between 1872 and 1890, and pur-chased for $32,000 by subscription of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, Mrs. WilliamH. Osborn, Messrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn, W. E. Dodge, J. PierpontMorgan, James M. Constable, Theodore A. Havemeyer, D. Willis James,John D. Crimmins, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Adrian Iselin, Charles Lanier,Frederic E. Church, and an unnamed friend of the Museum. Inthis collection of about 7,000 specimens, is included a great num-ber of skeletons and skulls of extinct mammals of the AmericanTertiary formations, some of them unique, and all of great valuein illustrating the history and evolution of the mammalia in NorthAmerica. Fourth, the Cope Pampean Collection, obtained in the PampeanFormation of the Argentine Republic by Messrs. Ameghino, Larroque,and Brachet, exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1878, and pur-chased by Professor Cope. It was purchased from his estate for the (78)
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o M HO o 1^& O l-HPj ws <l s El O o en l-H H I—I < o h-I fa l-H FOSSIL VERTEBRATES Museum at a cost of $10,000 in 1899 by Messrs. Havemeyer, Dodge,James, Iselin, Constable, and Osborn, Trustees of the Museum. Thiscollection contains a fine series of skeletons of ground-sloths, glyptodons,saber-tooth tiger, and other extinct South American mammals, of highexhibition value. Fifth, the Cope Collection of Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and CopeFishes of North America, presented to the Museum in 1902 by Presi- possiident Jesup at a cost of $20,000. It includes magnificent skeletons of Reptiles, etc.the amphibious, carnivorous, and duck-billed dinosaurs, a splendidseries 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- Whitneytained and prepared in 1901-3 by Western expeditions sustained colCction.through a special fund of $15,000 provided by the

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