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tiou which had often brought upon me derision from persons of my own 
class, confirmed me in the high opinion I have always entertained for the 
antique civilization of China! 
On my further journey I enjoyed the hospitality of the Officers of the 
U. S. Army at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, a place, if I remember right, situ¬ 
ated at an altitude of about 8000 feet above sea-level. My principal guide 
in that locality, the amiable Dr. James Van Allen Carter, took me to 
the marvellous fossiliferous region, called “Les Mauvaises terres”. 
At Davenport, Iowa, on the Mississippi, I was met at the station by the 
young naturalist Joseph Duncan Putnam and his family, in whose ho¬ 
spitable home I spent about a week, and formed a life-long friendship with 
them all. The premature death of young Putnam, a victim of scientific self- 
sacrifice, closed too early a career of the greatest promise. From Davenport, 
I went up the Mississippi, by steamer, to St. Paul and Minneapolis, and 
crossed overland to Duluth on Lake Superior, where I took the steamer 
and went along the Lakes to Buffalo and from there by the N. Y. Central 
and the Hudson River Railroads to New York. It was in September, and 
I recollect the vivid impression which the magnificent scenery along the 
Hudson River and the bright-green vegetation produced upon me as con¬ 
trasted with the beautiful, but quite different sights I had enjoyed in Cali¬ 
fornia ! 
1877 . 
52. Extract from a letter of Baron Os ten Sac ken to Dr. 
Hagen on some specimens of Termites found in California. 
Proc. Boston Soc. of Nat. Hist. XIX, Jan. 1877, p. 72—73. 
NB. Published by Dr. Hagen, it refers to some observations new to science 
which I bad made not only in California, hut on the high altitudes of the Rocky 
Mountains. 
53. Western Diptera, descriptions of new genera and spe¬ 
cies of Diptera from the region West of the Mississippi, 
and especially from California. 
Bulletin U. S. Geolog. and Geograpb. Survey of the Territories; III, 
April 30 1877, p. 189—354. 
NB. This paper contains eleven new genera and 137 n. sp. The authorities 
of the Geological Survey in Washington not having allowed me to add a sepa¬ 
rate “Table of Contents” to this publication, I had one printed at my own ex¬ 
pense and had it distributed with my Author’s Copies. The hurry of the publi¬ 
cation of the Western Diptera, I am sorry to say, left its traces in many 
misprints and other inaccuracies. 
