Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Friend, Vol. 80: A Religious and Literary Journal
A dispatch from Chicago states that John D. Rocke fellow has purchased for the University of Chicago prob ably the most extensive collection of fossils and minerals in existence in the country. This. With the numerous other groups now in the possession of the university, gives the institution what is believed to be the most valuable aggregation of paleozoic fossils in the United States. The Collection, was gathered by the late Professor Hall, who for more than fifty years was State Geologist of New York.
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