Osborn (1931)

From: Henry Fairfield Osborn, Cope: Master Naturalist: The Life and Letters of Edward Drinker Cope (Arno Press reprint, New York 1978 [1931]).

The collections in paleontology from Solenhofen are exceedingly interesting and numerous; Prof. Opfel who has charge of it was the first to obtain the Archaeopteryx lithographica and he believes that he has its skull which he showed me. It is very bird-like, but has long slender bill as Conchiosaurus (fig. in Dana’s Handbook Geology). It is nearer bird than reptile but is neither