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INTRODUCTION.                                                                v

Monmartre, Paris, are of peculiar interest as being the identical specimens
from which the great Cuvier first told Science of animals 
which once lived and are now extinct. The Miocene Tertiary of 
Central France, and of the still more northerly Rhine Valley, has 
yielded many specimens of Rhinoceros, Tapir, Hippopotamus, &c., 
- genera now confined within the tropics. Finally the Colossal Mammoth 
and Mastodon have their anatomy well represented by specimens 
of different parts of their skeleton from localities in Asia, 
Europe and America. The Mammals are represented by 140 specimens, 
some of them the largest fossils which have ever been cast.

The class of                       BIRDS

is illustrated by portions of some gigantic individuals from New Zealand
and Madagascar, while the "Ornithichinites" - copied from the 
finest slabs in the splendid series collected by the late Dr. Hitchcock
for the Museum of Amherst College, - are more effective transcripts 
of the strange originals.

Among              REPTILES, 
the Lias of Lyme Regis, England, and of Boll, Wirtemberg, and the 
Oolite of Solenhofen, Bavaria, have furnished many celebrated forms 
among the Marine Saurians, Crocodileans and Ptersosaurians, while 
the Great Tortoise - 8 feet long!- smaller Turtles from the Oolite of 
Solenhofen, and the Bad Lands" of Nebraska, and the skulls and 
tracks of the Cheirotherium or Labyrinodon - the great Trais Batrachian 
of England and Saxony - and the Archegosaurus and famous 
Andrias- complete this class.

The series of               FISHES, 
from the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland, the Lithographic Limestone
of Solenhofen, and the Chalk of England and the Tertiary of Monte 
Bolca and of Eningen, contains many finely preserved and interesting 
specimens.

Among the                 ARTICULATES, 
there are quite a variety of Crabs and Lobsters of Mesozoic and Tertiary
age which constitute a valuable complement to our American 
crustacean forms. They are accompanies by a fine suite of Trilobites, 
containing 50 specimens, which are in part from Bohemia, France 
and England, and in part American species from Prof. Hall's rich
collection.

Among the                               MOLLUSCS, 
the Cephalopoda attract especial attention. The Dibranchiates are 
shown by some interesting Belemnites and Teuthidians, while the 
Ammonites, - mainly from the Ward Museum of the University of 
Rochester, and from the author's private Cabinet, - illustrate the

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                                              INTRODUCTION.                                                                v

Monmartre, Paris, are of peculiar interest as being the identical specimens from which the great Cuvier first told Science of animals which once lived and are now extinct. The Miocene Tertiary of Central France, and of the still more northerly Rhine Valley, has yielded many specimens of Rhinoceros, Tapir, Hippopotamus, &c., - genera now confined within the tropics. Finally the Colossal Mammoth and Mastodon have their anatomy well represented by specimens of different parts of their skeleton from localities in Asia, Europe and America. The Mammals are represented by 140 specimens, some of them the largest fossils which have ever been cast.

The class of BIRDS

is illustrated by portions of some gigantic individuals from New Zealand and Madagascar, while the "Ornithichinites" - copied from the finest slabs in the splendid series collected by the late Dr. Hitchcock for the Museum of Amherst College, - are more effective transcripts of the strange originals.

Among REPTILES, the Lias of Lyme Regis, England, and of Boll, Wirtemberg, and the Oolite of Solenhofen, Bavaria, have furnished many celebrated forms among the Marine Saurians, Crocodileans and Ptersosaurians, while the Great Tortoise - 8 feet long!- smaller Turtles from the Oolite of Solenhofen, and the Bad Lands" of Nebraska, and the skulls and tracks of the Cheirotherium or Labyrinodon - the great Trais Batrachian of England and Saxony - and the Archegosaurus and famous Andrias- complete this class.

The series of FISHES, from the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland, the Lithographic Limestone of Solenhofen, and the Chalk of England and the Tertiary of Monte Bolca and of Eningen, contains many finely preserved and interesting specimens.

Among the ARTICULATES, there are quite a variety of Crabs and Lobsters of Mesozoic and Tertiary age which constitute a valuable complement to our American crustacean forms. They are accompanies by a fine suite of Trilobites, containing 50 specimens, which are in part from Bohemia, France and England, and in part American species from Prof. Hall's rich collection.

Among the MOLLUSCS, the Cephalopoda attract especial attention. The Dibranchiates are shown by some interesting Belemnites and Teuthidians, while the Ammonites, - mainly from the Ward Museum of the University of Rochester, and from the author's private Cabinet, - illustrate the