took the train there, while Sergeant Mortson, George and CharHe 

 returned to Great Falls, sold the horses and turned the proceeds over 

 to Mr. Gibson, to pay off our note. 



EXPEDITION OF 1 893 



When Osborn went to New York and became curator of vertebrate 

 palaeontology in the American Museum of Natural History, he began 

 to build up the department by systematic collecting and has, by that 

 method, made it incomparably the largest and finest in the world. 

 The first season's work by Dr. J. L. Wortman, who had collected several 

 years for Cope, and O. A. Peterson, who has long been at the Carnegie 

 Museum in Pittsburgh, was in the White River bad lands of South 

 Dakota, where I had spent the summers of 1882 and 1890. The mag- 

 nificent results, far beyond anything that I had been able to accom- 

 plish, filled me with speechless envy and jealousy; this material threw 

 ours completely into the shade. 



The following year, however, my feelings of envy were much miti- 

 gated, for Mr. J. B. Hatcher accepted the position of curator of verte- 

 brate palaeontology at Princeton, thus beginning a new era in the his- 

 tory of our museum, for Hatcher, who had been many years with 

 Marsh, had a veritable genius for collecting. Several of my generous 

 friends contributed to the payment of his salary, but the College soon 

 assumed it. President Patton, in the kindest manner, said that he thought 

 they owed me that much, thus relieving me of a burdensome under- 

 taking. For his first season, I asked Hatcher to try the South Dakota 

 bad lands once more, being fired by the results which Wortman and 

 Peterson had gained for the American Museum. It was necessary to 

 find some way of meeting his field expenses, for which I had no funds. 

 I, therefore, got up another expedition, which, like its predecessors, 

 was to spend the summer in the field and, in addition, the young men 

 generously made their contributions large enough to finance Hatcher 

 and enable him to begin work as soon as the weather permitted. 



In the middle of June, I followed Hatcher, stopping for a few hours 

 at Chicago for a preliminary visit to the Columbian Exposition. I 

 made no attempt to see anything but exteriors, taking the tour of the 

 lagoons in an electric launch. Then continuing my way, I arrived at 

 Fort Robinson, Neb., on June 17, where I was the guest of Captain 

 Day. My object in visiting Robinson was to obtain supplies and tentage 

 for the party and have them shipped to Hermosa, on the Black Hills 

 branch, where the expedition was to assemble and Hatcher to meet us 



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