THE O. C. MARSH PAPERS

brother, George Peabody, assumed full financial responsibility for his nephew's education. After studying at Andover, Yale, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Breslau, Marsh returned to Yale late in 1865 and was appointed the first professor of paleontology in the Western hemisphere. He had meanwhile influenced his well-to-do uncle to provide funds for the construction of a natural history museum at Yale over which Marsh would preside. (He was destined to inherit a large share of his uncle's fortune.) During his search for fossils in the Western states, he won acclaim at home and in Europe through his discoveries of eighty new forms of dinosaurs as well as an extinct bird with teeth. Following the midterm death of a president of the National Academy of Science, Marsh acted as President from 1880 to 1883, and then served for two successive six-year terms, filling the post for a longer span than any previous or subsequent incumbent. Attempts by Ernest Howe and George Bird Grinnell to write biographies of Marsh failed because of their deaths, and Marsh had been in his grave for forty years before 0. C. Marsh, Pioneer in Paleontology, by Charles Schuchert and Clara Mae Le Vene, was published by the Yale Press in 1940. From 1940 to 1970 Marsh's papers were divided between the Peabody Museum and the Sterling Memorial Library. Now reunited in Sterling, the collection, which consists of more than twelve thousand letters, will be available also at Peabody through photo-duplication. The general correspondence, hitherto housed at the Museum because of its predominantly scientific character, contains letters to and from Marsh commencing during his stay in Germany and continuing until his death. Among the individuals represented $re Alexander and Louis Agassiz, George Jarvis Brush, James Dwight Dana, Charles Darwin, Ulysses S. Grant, Leonard and Thomas Huxley, Simon Newcomb, Benjamin Silliman, Sr. and Jr., and Eli Whitney. The most prolific correspondents were