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114 THE DI OSAURS OF WYOMING
Here the VISItor sees his old Wyoming friends, the whip-tail
Diplodocus, the horned Triceratops, and other interesting
dinosaurs.
The "Dinosaur Mummy" in the American Museum of
Jatural History, described in previous pages, is said to be
approached or rivalled by a second specimen, collected in 1910
by Charles H. Sternberg in the Upper Cretaceous deposits of
Niobrara County, \Vyoming, in the Senckenberg Museum of
Frankfurt, Germany. .
The British Museum of Natural History (Kensington) has
a number of dinosaurs from Wyoming, notably a large threehorned
reptile from Niobrara County, \Vyoming. collected by
Charles H. Sternberg.
The monev \'alue of dinosaurs which have been collected
in \iVyoming 'is revealed in a letter received, September 9th,
1929, from the veteran collector of dinosaurs, Charles H.
Sternberg, now residing. in San Diego, California, and still
hearty and hale after a half century's collecting. .
The largest sum ever received for any single specimen of
a Vv'yol11ingdinosaur was $2.500.00 paid by the Senckenberg
Museum at Ftankfurt-am-Main, Germany, on the recommendation
of Dr. Drevermann. The dinosaur was a second
"mummy" 'of a duckbill or trachodont reptile. The first
"mummy," discussed in Chapter XIII, was secured by the
American Museum,of Natural History, at New York City, for
$2,000.00. ,
A skull of the three-horned dinosaur, Triceratops, was sold
to the Museum of Natural Sciences, in Paris, at the suggestion
of. Dr. Iv'[arcellin Boule; and another to the British Museum
of Natural History, as well as two skeletons of duckbill dinosaurs
which were sold for $800.00. A more perfect trachodont
dinosaur brought $1,000.00 at Paris.
Two fine skeletons of trachodont dinosaurs, en route to the
British Museum, were sunk by a German raider during the
war. Mr. Sternberg had worked for four months on these
skeletons. Another dinosaur, shipped on another boat, arrived
at the British Museum safely.
Doctor Carl Wiman of the University of Upsala, Sweden,
secured two skeletons of trachodont dinosaurs and a fine skull
of a horned dinosaur by purchase from Mr. Sternberg.