Vertebrate paleontology / by O.C. Marsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleontology--Cretaceous.

Paleontology.

Paleontology--Jurassic.

Paleontology--Miocene.

Paleontology--Tertiary.

Artiodactyla, Fossil.

Dinocerata.

Horses, Fossil.

Mammals, Fossil.

Penn Provenance:

Item 2 ("On the gigantic fossil mammals of the order Dinocerata") is inscribed to Joseph Leidy by O.C. Marsh on 28 June 1873 on front wrapper; items 9 ("Notice of new fossil mammals"), 10 ("Notice of new equine mammals from the Tertiary formation") and 11 ("Discovery of Cretaceous mammalia") are similarly inscribed on front wrapper without date.

Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 (inscription) (RBC copy)

Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899 (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

12 pieces in 1 volume : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1868-1891]

Summary:

Twelve paleontological works by O.C. Marsh (1 extract and 11 offprints), 11 published in The American journal of arts and sciences and its successor publication, American journal of science, between 1868 and 1891 and 1 in The American naturalist in 1874. Each is numbered on front wrapper or first page and 5 are inscribed by the author to Joseph Leidy.

Contents:

A new order of extinct Jurassic reptiles (Macelognatha) / by O.C. Marsh [Offprint of: American journal of science, v. 27 (April 1884)]

On the gigantic fossil mammals of the order Dinocerata / by O.C. Marsh [Offprint of: The American journal of science and arts, v. 5 (February 1873)]

Fossil horses in America / by O.C. Marsh [Offprint of: The American naturalist, v. 8 (May 1874)]

A horned artiodactyle (Protoceras celer) from the Miocene / by O.C. Marsh [Offprint of: American journal of science, v. 41 (January 1891)]

Polydactyle horses, recent and extinct / by O.C. Marsh [Offprint of: The American journal of science and arts, v. 17 (June 1879)]

Notice of a new and diminutive species of fossil horse (Equus parvulus), from the Tertiary of Nebraska / by O.C. Marsh [Offprint of: The American journal of science and arts, v. 46 (November 1868)]

Appendix. Art. XII. On the structure and affinities of the Brontotheridae / by O.C. Marsh [Extracted from: American journal of science, 3rd series, v. 7, no. 37 (January 1874)

Notice of new Tertiary mammals / by O.C. Marsh [Offprint of: American journal of science, v. 39 (June 1890)]

Article XXXV. Notice of new fossil mammals / by O.C. Marsh [Offprint of: American journal of science, v. 34 (October 1887)]

Notice of new equine mammals from the Tertiary formation / by O.C. Marsh [Offprint of: The American journal of science and arts, v. 7 (March 1874)]

Discovery of Cretaceous mammalia / by O.C. Marsh [Offprint of: American journal of science, v. 38 (July 1889)]

Discovery of cretaceous mammalia. Part II / by O.C. Marsh [Offprint of: American journal of science (August 1889)].

Notes:

Title supplied in ms. in pencil on leaf following front free endpaper. Title at head of ms. table of contents on folded sheet tipped in at beginning of volume reads: Marsh. Vertebrate paleontology.

Items 2 ("On the gigantic fossil mammals of the order Dinocerata"), 7 ("On the structure and affinities of the Brontotheridae"), 11 ("Discovery of Cretaceous mammalia") and 12 ("Discovery of cretaceous mammalia. Part II") contain plates.

Local Notes:

RBC copy: front free endpaper (with attached folded sheet with ms. table of contents) and following leaf (with ms. title in pencil) detached from spine.

OCLC:

950058130