unbounded ethusiasm.  Mr. O.A. Peterson, too, his old companion in storm and sunshine, danger and discomfort, in the wilds of both North and South America, his fellow hunter in many an expedition in search of the priceless relics of the past ages of the earth, was thier as now, bringing to the Museum from the west the remains of new or little known animals, including phenomenally complete skeletons.



Both Hatcher and Peterson had been in the employ of Professor O.C. Marsh, who had sent many expeditions into the west and had made wonderful discoveries of the remains of many giant reptiles (Dinosaurs) in a few cases getting the greater portions of individual skeletons.  In other cases he had found sufficient bones of different individuals to make pictorial restorations of the skeletons, which, though not always correct in every detail, gave a general idea of the bony framework