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...scientific expedition is to be sent from Princeton next summer to collect fossil skeletons for the museum and to gather specimens for the benefit of the departments of geology and paleontology. Professors Scott and Osborn will lead the expedition and will be assisted by eight students, chosen from the junior and senior classes. If there are more than eight applications, the assistants will be selected by a competitive examination...
...where we saw a most interesting accumulation of zoological and ornithological remains, intensely diverting if one understands them, only the mammoth, a favorite of a previous visit was not forthcoming, and we were gravely informed that it had probably been cooked up into Memorial Hall soup, while the immense fossil bird, we were told, had been served there on toast a few days before, as Kansas Prarie Chicken. Let all due allowance be made for the last two statements, as well as for the information vouchsafed by our unblushing guide that the case of grinning skeletons were ex-Harvard presidents...
Yale's resources in the fossil direction are thus described by the Record, which says...
...exhibition as was necessary to connect the general exhibition rooms with those of the main body of the building, hereafter to be erected. Volumes IV. to IX. of the Memoirs have been published. The principal collections purchased were those from Prof. Ward of Rochester, a second lot of Solenhofen fossils from Mr. Haberlein and the "Stock" collection of fossil fishes from Edinburgh...
...Post says, in regard to the Agassiz Museum : "By the purchase of the large Schary collection of Bohemian Silurian fossils, and by its own rich amassing in the West and Southwest during the year, the museum now contains one of the finest collections of palaeozoic fossil invertebrates in existence...