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Group, I spent nine months of incessant labor upon 

 it, and my readers may be surprised to learn that 

 I was delighted when Professor Macbride, of the 

 University of Iowa, purchased it for the munificent 

 sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, the price I 

 put upon it. My delight was even greater when I 

 received the following letter, which is now and was 

 then more highly prized than the check which it 

 enclosed. 



STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. 



BOTANY. 

 Iowa City, Iowa, May I, 1898. 



DEAR MR. STERNBERG: 



The boxes are all safely here. We have at present 

 no place for the display of the specimens, but have 

 opened the first three cases and are delighted with 

 the beauty of the material. I hope next year to have 

 a case for fossil plants, when I shall certainly make a 

 display of these beautiful leaves, and quote you as 

 collector. I should think the National Museum would 

 give you employment all the time. 



I trust you may have a pleasant and profitable sum- 

 mer, and if in future I can in any way serve you, 

 kindly advise me. 



Very truly yours, 



THOMAS K. MACBRIDE. 



This small sum enabled me to go with my son 

 George into the chalk of Kansas, where we discov- 

 ered the splendid specimen of a mosasaur, now in the 

 museum of Iowa University. But for the timely 



