| Description | Monochrome lithographs printed by the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, intended for Edward Drinker Cope, et al, 'Tertiary Formations of the West', Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories Volume III (1884) but mostly unpublished. Lithographed by T Sinclair & Son, after the original drawings by J H Blake. Comprises prints of skulls, jaws, vertebrae and other bones of the Balaena Mysticetus, Balaena Cisarctica, Balaenoptera Rostrata [whales] and genus Odontornithes [toothed birds] and Symborodon. 32 images on 25 sheets. |
| Administrative History | Information from: Osborn, H F. "USGS unpublished lithographic plates", 'Science', vol 74 (1931) pp43-44 |