lightful memories. It now has a bronze tablet recording that Jacob 

 Gould Schurmann, Ambassador of the United States, had lodged there 

 in his student days. 



At Frankfort, I interviewed the great lithographic firm of Werner 

 and Winter, which had already done a lot of work for me and in the 

 most satisfactory manner. The firm then consisted of the elder Werner, 

 an old man, who died a few years later, his son and young Fritz Winter, 

 a very attractive young man, who had studied with Chun in Leipsic 

 and was killed in Poland in the last war. I called at the office and 

 explained our plans for the Patagonian Reports and was delighted by 

 the attitude of the three partners, who seemed much more concerned 

 in doing their utmost for me than in making a profit from it. Especially 

 was I pleased with old Herr Werner, who declared that I was doing 

 the firm great honour in selecting them for the work. Matters were not 

 sufficiently advanced for the making of contracts; indeed, we never 

 did make any. They gave me preliminary estimates for the different 

 classes of plates and promised to quote the lowest possible prices con- 

 sistent with the best quality of work. This pledge they kept most meticu- 

 lously. 



In England, after brief visits to friends, I went to Bradford for the 

 meeting of the British Association and there was quartered on some very 

 hospitable folk, who lived in the suburb of Apperly Bridge. The whole 

 experience at Bradford was delightful and I enjoyed every moment of 

 it, especially an afternoon excursion into the most "romantic" scenery 

 I ever beheld. I sailed from Liverpool on the Leyland Liner, Devonian, 

 on her maiden voyage. A few days out we ran into a gale, which in- 

 creased in violence till it became a hurricane and, in sailor's parlance, 

 "took charge of the ship" for three days. We could make only three or 

 four knots, hardly more than steerageway. After landing, I learned that, 

 in all probability, we had run into the tail end of the hurricane that 

 destroyed Galveston, and could only be thankful that it wasn't the head. 



Hatcher and Peterson had gathered a wonderful series of fossil mam- 

 mals from the Santa Cruz formation of Patagonia, and what made the 

 collection especially valuable was the large number of partial and com- 

 plete skeletons which it contained. In working up this superb material, 

 the first necessary step was the determination of the fossils which had 

 already been named, chiefly by Ameghino, but this I found to be im- 

 practicable, for the papers of the Argentinian palaeontologists were 

 very inadequately illustrated, or not at all. It was not possible to name 

 our fossils with any confidence and, therefore, there was but one thing 



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