Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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336 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL probability both views were correct, the Pelycosaurs being a side branch from a direct line very near to the early mammalian ancestors, the Cyno- donts being probably the immediate ancestors of the mammal. Baur who worked here in America and died some fifteen years ago, was in favor of the reptile origin. Seeley adopted a rather curious view. He believed that the egg-laying mammals came from reptiles but that other mammals arose from amphibians. On the whole the Germans have favored the amphibians as ancestors, while English opinion although somewhat divided, has mainly been in support of the reptilian theory. The majority of Americans, doubtless influenced by Cope and Osborn, have always favored the descent of the mammals from a reptilian ancestor. I became interested in the question in 1885 and practically resolved then that I would contribute what I could to the solution of the problem. In 1892 I went to Australia and spent some years in studing the egg-laying
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