The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-15
PUBLIC WELCOME
 TO ART SCHOOL
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! deposited in the art school to reinaih i for a term of three years as secuii's ! for a loan advanced to the oWhel' James Jackson Jarves.s While eiioi' was made to secure their purchase at the price then asked, namely, soo'- i 00O At the expiration of the term oi l deposit MT. Jarves advertised th COT lection to be sold at public auctlon Ill ! tn gallery of the art school on Novem- Der g, 1S71 number or possipi7 buyers were present from New ioiA and Boston, with the understahuihs that the pictures were to be sold sep arately. Seeing that the collecuon would be dispersed if no purchaser se- cured is at I whole. MT. Jarves maue an offer which was accepted py "hicn the collection was secured TOT lle Yale art museum.
 A further increase of the collections ! of the school was made by the pur- chase of the Alden wood carvings, comprising three confessionals ana about eight hundred square feet or carved oak wainscotting of the SIX teenth century, from the chapel or suppressed convent of the Beguine Sisters in Ghent. They were pur- chased in London in 1855 by Colonel Bradford R. Alden of the United States army, and on their arrival in this country were stored for some years in the basement of Cooper ln- stitute, New York, and afterWard ] loaned to the then organized Metro poltan Museum of Art in 14th street i On the removal of the museum 10 1 Central park, before these beautiful carvings were again placed on exhi- bition their destination was diverted | to Yale college in 1879. and in 1897 1 they were added permanently to the | collections of the art school by pur- chase.
 In addition to these collections there have been acquired other works of art which make sum total of 21S l oil paintings, 567 casts and marbles, and about 500 etchings. engravings. autotypes, and original sketches by the masters with a library of about i 1,500 volumes.
 Late Addition at Peabody.
 There has just been restored, mounted and placed on exhibition in Peabody museum the skull of Toro- saurus gladlus The skull measures eight feet six inches in length by five feet and eight inches in breadth. and is the largest known skull of any land animal.
 The restoration was made by Prep arator Hugh Gbb. under the direction of Prof. Richard S. Lull It was made from bones collected by John B. Hatcher, S4S., under the direction of Prof. Othniel C. Marsh so, which were presented to Peabody museum by Prof Marsh. Though the skull is l in good condition the collection of the bones was made very carelessly com pared to the <painstaking methods usually employed by Prof. Marsh's parties.
 The restored skull is of an animal ! the size of whose body is not known, but which is estimated at about twen- | ty-five feet in length. It Is called 1 Torosaurus and is a cousin tthat is, evolved from an identical ancestor) to l the Triceratops, of which there are excellent restorations on exhibition in ! Peabody museum and of which Pro | lessor Lull modelled number of small plaster casts last term for ex- change with other museums Both l Torosaurus and Triceratops are de- scended from Monoclonus of the Ju- I dith river deposits of Cretacic times, 1 of which there are also restorations on exhibition in Peabody museum. Torosaurus resembles Triceratops in the development of an offensive arma- ment of three horns, but differs from it's cousin in that the frill or crest of the skull of Torosaurus Is pierced with two large approximately circu- lar holes. while the defensive frill of Triceratops is made of solid bone All l the skulls of either of the animals that have been found have come from Converse county Wyoming, and they are supposed to have become extinct together with the other Dinosaurs. al l the close of the Mesozoic age of rep tiles.
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