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cattle ranch here. It lay on the crest of a ridge and was largely 

 enclosed in a hard, concretion-like mass of grey sandstone, infil- 

 tered with siliceous material, giving it the consistency of flint. 

 The entire skull was present except one manible, including the 

 rostral and predentary bone. The distance from occipital condyle 

 to end of beak is eighty inches; the horn cores twenty-nine inches 

 long, with a diameter of nine inches; length of nasal horn, eleven 

 inches. So this spendid specimen consists of the entire skull in 

 front of the crest, with the right mandible and predentary. It is 

 six and one-half feet long, and with it are many fragments of the 

 crest, which, with some restoration, will, I hope, complete the skull. 

 The second Triceratops skull I found on the road along the di- 

 vide between Boggy and Greasewood creeks. I found this under 

 peculiar circumstances. After weeks of fruitless effort on Boggy 

 creek, I concluded to return to our. bone bed on Crooked creek. 

 It was a very hot day, and as Charlie, my second son drove along, 

 I nodded off to sleep most of the way; but suddenly my drowsy 

 eyes opened, and I saw the skull, only a short distance from the 

 road over which all the fossil hunters that have visited this country 

 have traveled. It consisted of nearly the entire skull, with the ex- 

 ception of the crest. The third was lying within fifty feet from 

 where my sons hauled out a load of fossils last year. It lay at the 

 forks of a ravine on Crooked creek, and both horn cores had stood 

 up two feet above the shale in which the entire skull was buried. 

 A trail leading down to a spring farther down the ravine passed 

 over the right horn, so it was ground to powder, but the other horn 

 core stood up two feet above the rock For years men had ridden 

 over this trail to the water hole, and had never seen the horn — 

 another proof that we find in this world what we are looking for, 

 and never notice the other things equally valuable. I supposed 

 here I had a species of Diceratops until I saw a Triceratops skull 

 in the Field Museum the following December, which is seven feet 

 long, and is an exact counterpart of mine. With the exception of 

 one horn core, the mandibles and predentary, the skull was complete, 

 with the entire crest as well as the front part of the face present. 

 This is the largest skull I have ever collected. These last two 

 specimens I still have on hand. Professor Lull told me three 

 years ago there were but thirteen skulls of this great land saurian 

 known, which has the largest skull of any land animal. Since that 

 time my party have discovered six. The one I sent to the Amer- 

 ican Museum last year, Professor Osborn writes me, with the ex- 

 ception of the grand one in the Carnegie Museum discovered by 



