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FAMOUS COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS 39
mingo . T.he collectors for this museum were]. B. Hatcher,
J. L. Wortman, Peterson and Earl Douglas. Papers by W. J.
Holland and]. B. Hatcher describe much of the material there.
I t was here that casts of the long, slender sauropod dinosaur,
Diplodocus, were made for presentation to royal museums
abroad. One of their quarries was 13 miles north of the Bone
Cabin quarry.
Amherst College has a noteworthy collection of dinosaur
footprints from the Triassic, and the paleontological museum
is being increased by collections made by Professor F. B.
Loomis.
The United States National Museum has a splendid collection
of dinosaurs, a part of which were acquired by Marsh, and
added to by the present Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology,
Charles \V. Gilmore. His papers and memoirs are of the
highest quality.
A collector of fossil vertebrates who made many notable
discoveries of dinosaurs in Wyoming was Charles Sternberg,
whose autobiography, "The Life of a Fossil Hunter," is one
of America's biographical classics in paleontology. His son
discovered in Vlyoming the only dinosaur mummies known,
acquired by the American Museum of Natural History. The
"mummy" reveals the skin pattern over a large area. SternhfOrg-'s
collections were purchased by many foreig-n mU"el1J:T""
He collected a fine Triceratops skull from Wyoming for tht>
British Museum (Natural History) at Kensington. Othe,
museums abroad 'where paleontology has been developed and
where dinosaurs may be seen, some of them from Wyoming,
are at Stuttgart, Brussels in Belgium, Berlin, Tuebingen,
Paris, and at other large cities.
The finest and most extensive collection of dinosaurs in
the world has been left to the last. It represents the guiding
genius of one man, Henry Fairfield Osborn, a man of the
highest intellectual attainments. Dinosaurs from all over the
world-from all continents where dinosaurs are known, are
to be found in the American Museum of Natural History,
where skeletons and restorations and exhibitions fill the only
"Dinosaur Hall" ever built. It is not possible here to give
a complete account of the development of this truly wonderful
collection. Many men have shared with Osborn the development
of the collections of dinosaurian remains, notably ,V. D.
Matthew, vValter Granger. Barnum Brown. ]. L. ,vortman,
and a large staff of research assistants and preparators.
A few localities in vVyoming have been extremely productive
of dinosaurian skeletons, the most famous of 'which
is the Bone Cabin Quarry in Alban)' County. south central