PREFACE 



I WISH to call the attention of the reader of my 

 story " The Life of a Fossil Hunter " to the fact 

 :hat I am under obligations especially to Prof. 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn, President and Curator of 

 Paleontology of the American Museum of Natural 

 ilistory in New York. He has supplied me with 

 many of the most beautiful of the illustrations that 

 llumine these pages and has assisted the work in 

 many ways. 



I would also express my gratitude to Miss Mar- 

 garet Wagenalls of New York, who edited the 

 manuscript; to Prof. Dunlap of the Kansas State 

 Jniversity, for his kindly criticisms; and to Dr. W. 

 K. Gregory, Lecturer on Zoology at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, whose untiring efforts have brought the 

 oook to its present form. 



I hope it may awaken a wide interest in the 

 study of ancient life, and I thank my friends every- 

 where who are contributing to that end. 



CHARLES H. STERNBERG. 

 LAWRENCE, KANSAS, 



January, igog. 



