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departed empty-handed. In the morning Marsh arrived. 

 Garman described what had happened and Marsh said, 

 "Oh, I foresaw that possibility. That was Cope. He Ukes 

 to describe from skulls, and all the good skulls I got this 

 season are in the stove." Marsh then went to the stove, 

 opened the door, extracted a bushel or so of treasures, 

 wrapped them, boarded the train, and went east with the 

 cream of his catch. Marsh didn't dare keep them in his 

 lodging, but put them for safekeeping in a place where he 

 felt sure they would be undisturbed — as they were. 



Garman himself was an extraordinary character. After 

 such training it was no wonder he was secretive about 

 everything. He seldom talked about himself, but, work- 

 ing with him as I did for many years, I picked up bits of 

 information now and then. He had run away from home 

 as a boy. He told me he was brought up as a Quaker. I 

 imagine he had a German father and a Quaker mother, for 

 the notes in all the volumes of his library acquired during 

 his earliest years were written in German and in Gothic 

 script. Be that as it may, he drifted west, became a profes- 

 sional hunter for a construction gang on the Union Pacific 

 Railroad; he shot buffalo and, he told me, though it went 

 against his Quaker upbringing, he shot Indians too on more 

 than one occasion. 



Reading in a paper that Louis Agassiz was to land in 

 San Francisco at the close of the voyage of the Hassler, 

 Garman trekked out to meet him and was on the wharf 

 when the ship pulled in. He introduced himself and told 

 the professor of his interest in natural history and of his 

 ambition to be a scientist. Agassiz brought him to Cam- 

 bridge where he remained the rest of his life. David Starr 



