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ALTHOUGH notices have from time to time appeared in European scientific journals of the scientific expe ditions sent out from Yale College to the Western Territories of the United States, probably only those palæontologists and geologists who have crossed the Atlantic and have had an opportunity of seeing all that is yet visible of the vast amount of material collected at New Haven can adequately realise the enormous additions which have been and are being there daily made to our knowledge of extinct vertebrate life. Thanks to the generous liberality of the late Mr. George Peabody, who has endowed centres of scientific progress in various parts of America, Yale College has been supplied with an admirable Museum of Natural History and with a fund for its maintenance. By his deed of gift the donor provided that after one portion of the money had been employed in erecting the museum, a certain sum ($20,000) should be set apart and invested until it should reach at least five times its original amount, when it might be employed for further building; while the interest of a further sum of $30,000 should be devoted to the main tenance and extension of the collections, in the proportion of three-sevenths to zoology, three-sevenths to geology, and one-seventh to mineralogy.
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G., A. Yale College and American Palæontology . Nature 21, 101–104 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021101a0
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