Yale Fossil Collection.

Yale's resources in the fossil direction are thus described by the Record, which says;

"Beside the wonderful collection of valuable specimens that is seen by visitors at Peabody museum, the basement of that building is full to overflowing with valuable matter, some arranged and packed away for want of room to exhibit it and a large quantity in boxes just as it is received. The pieces of skeletons, hundreds in number for each bone, are arranged with infinite care and labor. Several men are constantly employed at this work. Two collectors are kept in the region of the far west where the fossils are found, and are sending in new matter all the time. Prof. Marsh is pushing the work with great enterprise and at great personal expense. He is giving foreign universities the benefit of the collection by sending many plaster casts to them."