Introduction : the cost of doing business
The beginnings of government support for paleontology
Eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century paleontologists and patrons
Developments in government support for paleontology in the United States between 1830 to about 1880
Paleontology in mid nineteenth-century surveys outside the United States
Government support for paleontology in the late nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth century : 1880 to about 1940
Conclusion : the chain of paleontology
Appendix : glossary of prominent patrons and paleontologists.