Abstract
The Illinois State Museum holds a very important Palaeozoic fish collection, containing almost half of the material which was the basis for the Geological Survey of Illinois palaeontology reports at the end of the last century. The other major part of the material studied by Amos H. Worthen and Orestes St. John is at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Worthen collection of vertebrate fossils at the Illinois State Museum had not been adequately curated since nearly being destroyed by a move without expert museum supervision over 100 years ago. Recuration of the vertebrates has resulted in a new catalogue of the fossils.
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