been founded, on broad plans for expansion, for scientific work,a nd for the enlightenment of the people.  Prof H. F. Osborn was at the head of the department of Vertebrate fossils and it was his spirit, more than that of any other man, that put life into these dry bones and made these strange creatures of the past and the world which they inhabited a living reality.  The subject was approached in the brodest manner Teeth, bones, and skeletons were studied not only to make careful techincal  descriptions and comaprisons with related forms of life, but to find the meaning of these forms in the economy of the living animal.  Everything available was used to throw light on the orgins, evolution, history, form, habits, and migration of these animals and on the owrk in which they lived.  The spirit of inquiry was on the basis that knowledge is not for the scientific