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16                                        CABINET OF GEOLOGY.

PALEOZOIC AGE.

The fossils of the Cambrian, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous
and Permian periods are arranged in the room directly opposite the 
Lithological Cabinet. They represent, collectively, the life of the 
Paleozoic epoch - the age of Fishes, of Invertebrate Animals, and 
of Flowerless Plants. Here are displayed many rich series of 
specimens from New York, Pennsylvania and the Western States; 
from England, France, Germany, Italy and Egypt. Particularly 
noticeable among these forms of extinct life are delicate, faintly
impressed, Graptolites; numerous free and grouped Corals from 
chiefly Iowa and England; Brachiopod and Cephalopod 
Shells from Ohio, New York, England and Germany, offer many 
peculiar forms of much interest; and a series of Trilobites, from 
American localities and from Bohemia, contains 120 species. Vertebrate 
life, represented by the Holoptychius, Cephalaspis, Ptericthys, 
and other fishes from the "Old Red Sandstone" of Scotland; 
by the Amblypterus from the coal-measures of Saarbruck, and 
the Paleniscus from the Permian strata of Thuringia; and by a 
few rare Reptilian forms. Among the latter are the tracks
(original specimens) of an air-breathing reptile from the coal-measures
of Greensburg, Pa., first discovered and described by the 
late Dr. Alfred T. King, and subsequently figured by Sir Charles 
Lyell, in his Manual of Geology. Among the Plants are many
Fucoids from the Medina Sandstone of New York State, and fine 
specimens of the Cyclopteris Hibernicus, a fossil Fern, from the 
Devonian of Ireland.

The rich Flora of the Carboniferous period is represented in 
this room by a great number of the trunks, roots and stems of huge 
Tree-ferns and Reeds - Sigillaria, Stigmaria, Lepidodendron, Calamites, 
etc.- from the coal-measure of Pennsylvania, Nova Scotia, 
England and Prussia. A number of the flattened trunks of the 
Sigillaria are from four to six feet in length, presenting beautifully 
fluted columns, dotted by the scars of the symmetrically disposed
leaf-stalks, which once branched out from their surface. One 
stump of one of these trunks, nearly four feet in diameter, is of 
the most peculiar interest, as showing the prolongation downwards 
of their roots- the Stigmaria.

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16 CABINET OF GEOLOGY.

                                        PALEOZOIC AGE.

The fossils of the Cambrian, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods are arranged in the room directly opposite the Lithological Cabinet. They represent, collectively, the life of the Paleozoic epoch - the age of Fishes, of Invertebrate Animals, and of Flowerless Plants. Here are displayed many rich series of specimens from New York, Pennsylvania and the Western States; from England, France, Germany, Italy and Egypt. Particularly noticeable among these forms of extinct life are delicate, faintly impressed, Graptolites; numerous free and grouped Corals from chiefly Iowa and England; Brachiopod and Cephalopod Shells from Ohio, New York, England and Germany, offer many peculiar forms of much interest; and a series of Trilobites, from American localities and from Bohemia, contains 120 species. Vertebrate life, represented by the Holoptychius, Cephalaspis, Ptericthys, and other fishes from the "Old Red Sandstone" of Scotland; by the Amblypterus from the coal-measures of Saarbruck, and the Paleniscus from the Permian strata of Thuringia; and by a few rare Reptilian forms. Among the latter are the tracks (original specimens) of an air-breathing reptile from the coal-measures of Greensburg, Pa., first discovered and described by the late Dr. Alfred T. King, and subsequently figured by Sir Charles Lyell, in his Manual of Geology. Among the Plants are many Fucoids from the Medina Sandstone of New York State, and fine specimens of the Cyclopteris Hibernicus, a fossil Fern, from the Devonian of Ireland.

The rich Flora of the Carboniferous period is represented in this room by a great number of the trunks, roots and stems of huge Tree-ferns and Reeds - Sigillaria, Stigmaria, Lepidodendron, Calamites, etc.- from the coal-measure of Pennsylvania, Nova Scotia, England and Prussia. A number of the flattened trunks of the Sigillaria are from four to six feet in length, presenting beautifully fluted columns, dotted by the scars of the symmetrically disposed leaf-stalks, which once branched out from their surface. One stump of one of these trunks, nearly four feet in diameter, is of the most peculiar interest, as showing the prolongation downwards of their roots- the Stigmaria.