Catalogue of the Academy Series of Casts of Fossils: From the Principal Museums of Europe (Classic Reprint)
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Pterodactjle wliich lived mtlio Jurassic Aji:c; of Fislius which swam in Cri-taccous, Oolite, and Devoiiiim seas the lafct iso gmpliicallj described by Hugli Millev in his writings on the Old Bd Sandstone. Also Trilobites, and other Crastaeeana, Insects, Ammonites and other Shells; Sea-Eggs, Star Fishes, Crinoids, Foramenifers and Sponges. Also, a few Fossil Plants suiteble to he copied as Casts. This aeries is quite complete in its variety of forms, containing full material for illustration by the teacher of Geology in our Academies, Normal Schools and smaller Colleges. Its specimens vary in size fi-om small shells to skulls and entire skeletons several feet in diameter. It wilt fill the shelves of a cabinet room twenty feet square. Each specimen is accompanied hj a handsome printed kbei, and the display and graphic effect of the whole is very great. To still further augment this display, there have been added three huge specimens, which are hitended to stand independently on pedestals in the middle of the room. One of these the Glyptodon, or great Fossil Armadillo is nine feet long and about four feet high. These three specimens form a SuppUment which may be taken with the cabinet, or may be omitted, as the purchaser elects. The price of this entire Academy series, carefully boxed, and delivered at the Koclioster freight office, is$500. The price without the supplement is 300. College Series. This series consists of three hundred and thirty specimens, chosen like the preceding series, among the most noteworthy forma in the whole range of Fossil Organisms. The natural classes and orders are all here represented by copies of the most celebrated Fossils the originals of which form the scientific treasures of Royal Museums, and are single and unique. The series commences with some rare human remains including the famous Fossil human skeleton from Guadaloupe and continues throiigh all the classes of the Vertebrates, and then through the four sub-kingdoms of the Invertebrates, introducing every form and name of which the student in the highest course of geological teaching is ever likely to hear. Besides the individual forms there are small suites of the Oasts which illustiute particular families of Fossils, as among the Trilobites, Ammonites, Bi aehiopoda, Echinoidea, Crinoidea and Foramenifera. This series is so full and extensive that it may be arranged by itself in the Museum Hall, forming a complete Geological Cabinet, or it may be worked in in the classification with such actual Fossils as the College may possess. The series of itself will quite (ill the shelves of a cabinet hall thirty by forty feet in size, some of the larger specimens Glyptodon, Mastodon, Deinotherium and Diprotodon standing on distinct pedestals in the central area. A Suppletnent is also added to this College Series, contiiining four of the largest Fossils known to science, and the largest Casts which have ever been taken. These are the Megatherium; the Eleplias Ganeaa (Himmalaya Mammoth); the Colossochelys (colossal Hinimalaya T()rix ise), and the great Pleaiosanrns Cramptoni, the latter twenty-two feet long! The price of this College Series boxed, c.), is 11, 000, Its price, together with the supplement is$1, 600 The two series above described have been chosen with mneh care and study that tiiey shall meet the end for which they are intended, and be true eompends of Geological science complete illustrative cabinets. The writer has just completed Catalogues of each of the series. These catalogues give a short descriptive notice of each specimen, stating its relation to modem forms, the locality where it was found, the geological bed in which it lay, its size, and the Museum in which the original is now preserved. There are also introductory notices of the Orders and other higher divisions, numerous illustrations, and a copious gl
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