Hatcher, who adopted a new system, which, with some advantages, 

 had one great drawback. 



He arranged with the students who desired to make a Western trip, 

 to contribute nearly enough money for him to take the field in early 

 spring and then, when the party came out, he took charge of it and 

 guided the travellers through the country which they wished to see, 

 but there was no pretense of doing any work. I had to raise a moderate 

 sum to supplement the contributions made by the students and, after 

 writing to one of the Trustees for a subscription, I received the reply 

 that he would give nothing to take the students off on junketing trips. 

 When I explained to him the purpose for which I was raising the 

 money, he immediately sent me a handsome sum. That opprobrious 

 phrase, "junketing trips," was widely used for those excursions, I even 

 saw it in the newspapers, and it did us a lot of harm. On the other 

 hand. Hatcher's plan had two great advantages; it enabled him to do 

 more work and more effective work and it created a warm attachment 

 between his students and himself. In consequence of this attachment, 

 they made it possible for him to realise his great ambition of going 

 to Patagonia in 1896. Before he started on this great undertaking, he 

 collected for us, most successfully, in the Uinta, White River, Loup 

 Fork and Sheridan formations of Utah, Nebraska and South Dakota. 



My own feelings toward the expeditions in which I took part were of 

 very mixed character. While I greatly disliked the dirt and discomfort 

 of camp life and the long separations from my family, the work of 

 discovering new fossils had an inexhaustible fascination and there was 

 about the whole undertaking a joyousness that will be hard to recapture 

 under the changed conditions of today. The time of my activity cov- 

 ered the twenty years from 1877 ^^ 1897, when the Far West was open 

 country, very sparsely settled. For months, the collector's home was in 

 his tent and his saddle, "wood, water and grass" his only requisites for 

 happiness. The summer climate of the regions where we worked was, 

 for the most part, delightful, though the heat was sometimes oppressive, 

 and the health of all the successive parties was wonderfully good. Of 

 all the students who were with Hatcher and myself in the West, I do 

 not know of one who does not look back upon his trip with unmixed 

 pleasure, as one of the memorable experiences of his life. 



For many years past the Western work has been in the hands of my 

 colleague and former pupil, Dr. W. J. Sinclair, who has had brilliant 



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