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Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory: Collections
The E.T. Dumble Collection
The E. T. Dumble Collection was made from 1890 to 1894, while Dumble was Director of the Texas Geological Survey. Most of these specimens were collected by Professors W. F. Cummins and E. D. Cope. The collection includes specimens from the Triassic and Tertiary of the Texas Panhandle and Coastal Plain. Cope, a professor at the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences and one of the preeminent paleontologists of the century, studied and published on this collection in the annual reports of the Dumble Survey. Many of the specimens Cope described were returned to Austin and are now in the VPL Collections.
