Editorial. 3 



In the spring of the year 1899 he entered into the employment of 

 the Carnegie Museum as a field assistant under the Director. He was 

 a member of the party led by Dr. Jacob L. Wortman which discovered 

 the specimen of Diplodocus carnegiei near Sheep Creek in Albany 

 County, Wyoming. In fact, that discovery was due to Mr. Reed. 

 The Fourth of July was being celebrated in camp as a holiday, and 

 Mr. Reed, shouldering his rifle, went out to hunt, and on his rambles 

 discovered the deposit which yielded up the skeleton of that now 

 famous specimen. The winter of 1899 was spent by him at the 

 Carnegie Museum in the paleontological laboratory. In the spring he 

 resumed work in the field under the late Professor J. B. Hatcher. In 

 the summer of 1900 he voluntarily left the employment of the Carnegie 

 Museum and engaged in copper mining. Later he resumed his con- 

 nection with the University of Wyoming as Curator of the Museum 

 of the University and as preparator of fossils. 



Mr. Reed, although he had enjoyed but few advantages in early 

 life, by reading and contact with men had acquired considerable 

 familiarity with the subject of paleontology, and as a collector proved 

 himself efificient. It was often said of him that he " had a nose for 

 fossils," and found them where others passed them by unobserved. 



The news of his death awakens a flood of memories in the minds of 

 his friends at the Carnegie Institute, who trekked with him over the 

 mesas and explored the canyons of eastern and south central Wyoming 

 in the years 1899 and 1900. His good humor, his inexhaustible fund 

 of amusing anecdotes and stories of life on the plains in the days of 

 the early settlement, told in his own inimitable way, remain firmly 

 fixed in the memories of those who enjoyed his companionship. 



To his widow and children the Director on behalf of his former 

 associates desires in these lines to express heartfelt sympathy in view 

 of their sad bereavement. 



One of the ver}' interesting discoveries made by Mr. Douglass in the 

 Carnegie quarry in Utah is that of a perfect skull of a Diplodocus 

 directly articulated with the atlas, which is followed by the remaining 

 vertebrae of the neck. This beautiful specimen settles for all time 

 the question as to the type of skull which belonged to Diplodocus. 

 It is profoundly to be wished that as definite information could be 

 secured as to the heads of some of the other genera of sauropod dino- 



