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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marsh, Othniel Charles 1831-1899 (search)
rtebrates, more than half of which he classified and described. Among his more important finds were a sub-class of birds with teeth, which he named Odontornithes; two new classes of large mammals, the Tillodontia and Dinocerata; several new orders of dinosaurs, supposed to be the largest land animals yet discovered, etc. In 1877 he received the first Bigsby medal given by the Geological Society of London, and in 1898 the Cuvier prize of the French Academy of Sciences. In 1883-95 he was president of the National Academy of Sciences. He was a member of numerous scientific organizations. In 1898 he presented the collections of his lifetime to Yale University, and also gave his estate, having a supposed value of $150,000, to that institution. His publications include Odontornithes: a monograph on the extinct Toothed birds of North America; Dinocerata: a monograph of an extinct order of gigantic mammals; and The dinosaurs of North America. He died in New Haven, Conn., March 18, 1899.