It was very closely related to the American _Allosaurus_ and unquestionably similar in appearance and habits.[6] ALLOSAURUS.
The following extract is from the American Museum Journal for January 1908.[7] "Although smaller than its huge contemporary Brontosaurus, this animal is of gigantic proportions being 34 feet 2 inches in length, and 8 feet 3 inches high." [Illustration: Fig.

11 .-- MOUNTED SKELETON OF ALLOSAURUS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM.

_After Osborn_] _History of the Allosaurus Skeleton._ "This rare and finely preserved skeleton was collected by Mr.F.F.Hubbell in October 1879, in the Como Bluffs near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the richest locality in America for dinosaur skeletons, and is a part of the great collection of fossil reptiles, amphibians and fishes gathered together by the late Professor E.D.Cope, and presented to the American Museum in 1899 by President Jesup.
"Shortly after the Centennial Exposition (1876) it had been planned that Professor Cope's collection of fossils should form part of a great public museum in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, the city undertaking the cost of preparing and exhibiting the specimens, an arrangement similar to that existing between the American Museum and the City of New York.[8] "The plan, however, fell through, and the greater part of this magnificent collection remained in storage in the basement of Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, for the next twenty years.

From time to time Professor Cope removed parts of the collection to his private museum in Pine Street, for purposes of study and scientific description.

He seems, however, to have had no idea of the perfection and value of this specimen.