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Title: Dinosaurs
With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections

Author: William Diller Matthew

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Language: English

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DINOSAURS

With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections

by

W. D. MATTHEW

Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology

... '_Dragons of the prime
That tare each other in their slime_'

[Illustration: SKULL OF THE GREAT CARNIVOROUS DINOSAUR
TYRANNOSAURUS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM.]

New York
American Museum of Natural History
1915

DINOSAURS.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. The Age of Reptiles. Its Antiquity, Duration
and Significance in Geological History. 9

CHAPTER II. North America in the Age of Reptiles.