Restoration of some European dinosaurs : with suggestions as to their place among the Reptilia / by O.C. Marsh.
- Othniel Charles Marsh
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Restoration of some European dinosaurs : with suggestions as to their place among the Reptilia / by O.C. Marsh. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[From the American Journal op Science,' Tol. L, November, 1895.] Restoration of Some European Dinoaiiurs, with Suggestions as to their Place among the Eeptilia ;* by O. C. Marsh. (With Plates V-YIII.) For several years, I have been engaged in investigating the Dinosaurs of ^ortli America, where these extinct reptiles were very abundant during the whole of Mesozoic time. The results of my study have been published from time to time, and I have already had the honor of presenting some of these to the British Association. In carrying out this investi- gation so as to include the whole group of Dinosaurs, wher- ever found, and bringing all under one system of classification, it has been necessary for me to study the remains discovered in Europe, and I have made several visits to this country for that purpose. In comparing the forms known from the two continents, certain important differences as well as some marked resem- blances between the two have been observed, and placed on record. In concluding my investigations of the North Ameri- can forms, I have fortunately been able to make restorations of the skeletons of quite a number of very coraj)lete type specimens, and this has proved a most instructive means of comparing those from different horizons, and of different groups, among the known Dinosauria of America. The success of this plan rendered it very desirable to extend it, if possible, to the best-known forms of European Dinosaurs. This I have been enabled to do in a few instances, and the main object of the present paper is to lay these latest results before you. In approaching the subject of European Dinosaurs, and especially those of England, where the study of the group first began, I am well aware that I am on delicate ground, since many and various opinions have been expressed in regard to the nature of the remains here discovered, and particularly as to the form and appearance during life of the animals they represent. I may, perhaps, be permitted, in this connection, to say, what has often occurred to me, that the Dinosaurs seem to have been rather unfortunate, and to have suffered much from both their enemies and their friends. Many of them were destroyed and dismembered long ago by their nat- ural enemies, but, more recently, their friends have done them further injustice in putting together their scattered remains, and restoring them to supposed life-like forms. * Abstract of Paper read before Section C, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Ipswich, September 14, 1895.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22321937_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
