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Palæontological Report of the Princeton Scientific Expedition of 1877Osborn, Henry Fairfield

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Palæontological Report of the Princeton Scientific Expedition of 1877

Name: Palæontological Report of the Princeton Scientific Expedition of 1877
Author: Osborn, Henry Fairfield

Osborn, Henry Fairfield

Paleontology -- Eocene; Paleontology -- United States; Paleontology -- Wyoming; Vertebrates, Fossil

_CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY AND ARCHEOLOGY
                       OF PRINCETON COLLEGE._



                               No. 1.



                       Palæontological Report

                                 OF

                 The Princeton Scientific Expedition

                              OF 1877.


                                 BY

                          HENRY F. OSBORN,
                            WM. B. SCOTT,
                         FRANCIS SPEIR, Jr.


                         September 1, 1878.


                              New York:

         S. W. GREEN, PRINTER, Nos. 16 AND 18 JACOB STREET.

                                1878.


Palæontological Division.

  PROF. JOSEPH KARGÈ,
  ROLLIN H. LYNDE,
  HENRY F. OSBORN,
  JOTHAM POTTER,
  WM. B. SCOTT,
  FRANCIS SPEIR, Jr.


_To the Honorable the President and Board of Trustees of the College
of New Jersey:_

_Gentlemen:_

_I have the honor to transmit herewith the Palæontological Report of
the College Scientific Expedition of 1877._

_The fossils collected by the Palæontological party, and deposited by
the chief of the expedition in the Geological Museum, consisted of
two sets, one numbering some two thousand specimens of fossil plants
and insects from the tertiary beds of Central Colorado, the other of
a considerable series of fossil vertebrates, mostly mammals, from the
tertiary beds of Wyoming Territory, around Fort Bridger. This last
collection has been studied and worked out with unabated zeal and
diligence by the three post-graduate members of the Palæontological
party, Messrs. H. Osborn, W. Scott, and F. Speir, who devoted most of
the time of their course to this special work, with what success this
Report will show._

_It will be a source of gratification to the generous friends of
the College, who furnished means for the Scientific Expedition of
1877, that it not only enriched our Museum to so great an extent,
but did more still by fostering in our College a thorough study of
Palæontology, which could not have been undertaken without such means
as these thus placed at the disposal of our students._

_The fossil insects and plants have been intrusted to the hands of
the best specialists for determination. Dr. S. Scudder, of Cambridge,
Mass., has kindly consented to revise the insects. Prof. G. L.
Lequereux the plants._

                        _Very Respectfully,_

                                          _A. GUYOT,_

  _Director of the E. M. Museum of Geology and Archæology._


                                             Princeton, June 1, 1878.

Sir: We transmit herewith our report upon the Palæontological
collections made by the Princeton party in the summer of 1877.

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Palæontological Report of the Princeton Scientific Expedition of 1877

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