AN ENJOYABLE OUTING 



into camp at Rock Creek, a most beautiful grassy valley. Rock 

 Creek might well be called a river, as a large volume of clear 

 w^ater is constantly flowing through its channel. Beautiful 

 snow-capped Elk Mountain was ever to our left, and Laramie 

 Peak to our east. From Rock Creek camp, side trips were 

 made to the great chalk cliffs and the ammonite and gastropod 

 fields nearby. Many hundreds of pounds were collected, care- 

 fully packed in boxes and shipped from Rock Creek station, by 

 the various college representatives. The writer was so fortu- 

 nate as to find a moUusk, twelve inches in diameter, showing 

 all the colors as bright as it could have been in the Tertiary. 

 After a three days' halt at Rock Creek camp, we traveled 

 directly north and at the end of the day reached the great dino- 

 saur beds, or fields, of Wyoming, and went into camp not over 

 two thousand feet from where Professor Marsh, of Yale College, 

 discovered and successfully removed one of the largest dino- 

 saurs discovered in the world. Professor Knight of Wyoming 

 University and Professor Williston of Kansas University have 

 recently made some valuable finds at this place. Several of our 

 party secured some valuable specimens of femora and vertebra. 

 Professor Yates of Ottawa, Kan., University and Professor 

 Brown of Virginia, also Professor Charlton of Texas, were highly 

 successful in securing specimens for their colleges. This section 

 of the Freezeout Mountains shows many wonders in the various 

 folds and unconformities. Lake Como and Como Station were 

 near our camp. After a two days' extremely interesting stop, we 

 moved northwest and, at Medicine Bow, I, through press of 

 other business, was reluctantly compelled to leave the party 

 and return to "Sunny Kansas," much benefited in health and 

 knowledge. H. L. T. SKINNER, 



Ottawa, Kansas. 

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