Othniel Charles Marsh - The Dinosaurs of North America - 1896

Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey 1894-95.
Brown linen binding - xxii (Contents, etc.), 910 pp. - 29.5 x 20 cm.

In good condition. Small ex-university library characteristics, without lending history.

Main contents:
Director's Report & Papers 1-132,
The Dinosaurs of North America, descriptions + LXXXV illustrations and 66 text figures 133-414,
Several geological articles including America, Europe (Portugal, Italy) with lots of illustrations including coloured maps and fold-outs 415-885,
Index 887-910.

'Othniel Charles Marsh (1831 – 1899) was an American paleontologist. Marsh and his fellows went on trips between 1870 and 1893 to find additions to their fossil collections. Fossil mammals were found from the Tertiary (the current Paleogene and Neogene). Fossil dinosaurs and pterosaurs were found in layers from the Jurassic and Cretaceous.
Marsh raised the abuses by the government of the Indians in public, which gave him the lasting friendship of the Dakotas.

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