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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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12 2 THE A ME RICA N MUSE UM JO I ^RNA L FIELD WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY
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I HE Department of Vertebrate Paleontology has three expeditions in the field for the season. One, under the leadership of Mr. Barnum Brown, will continue the search for Dinosaurs in the Cretaceous beds of Montana which has been prosecuted during the last two years with considerable success. Several very valu- able specimens have already been obtained in this region, which was first brought to the attention of this Museum by Dr. W. T. Hornaday, director of the New York Zoological Park, Bronx Park. The most remarkable of these specimens is the gigantic carnivorous Dinosaur which Professor Osborn has named Tyran- nosaurus, and of which he expects shortly to publish an extended description and restoration. A large part of the skeleton in splendid preservation has been found, and it is hoped that further quarrying in the hill where these remains were discovered will bring to light the remainder of the skeleton, so that it can be mounted. A fine skeleton of a Duckbilled Dinosaur found by ranchmen in the same region has been purchased by the Museum and will be disinterred and brought to New York this year. Other prospects already located are to be investigated, and a diligent search made for more. It is especially desirable to obtain a skeleton of the Horned Dinosaur Triceratops, of w^hich we have already a fine skull from this region. A second party under Mr. Walter Granger will continue the search for fossil mammals in the Eocene formations of Wyoming. The American Museum already possesses unrivaled collections from these formations, and it is desired to round out and com- plete them as fully as possible by thorough and systematic search in all the known localities where they occur. These fossils are of much scientific and considerable popular interest, since they represent the early stages in the evolution of the various races of mammals which now inhabit the earth as well as of the others which have become extinct. Mr. Granger's explorations in the Bridger basin during the last three seasons have already added largely to our collections, and the careful records and observ^a- tions of our parties will help to solve several puzzling problems.

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