Othniel Charles Marsh Quotes:
Life: October 29, 1831 - March 18, 1899
Birthday: October 29
Death: March 18
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. [Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs.]
source: Othniel Charles Marsh (1886). “Dinocerata: A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals”
topic: Past, Illustration, Justice
