Othniel Charles Marsh Quote

Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs:

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatomists. The text of such a memoir may soon lose its interest, and belong to the past, but good figures are of permanent value.


Dinocerata: A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals (ed. 1886)


In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to...

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to...

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to...

In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to...