1 62 Life of a Fossil Hunter 



east of the Sierra Nevada. The basin of an 

 ancient lake, originally discovered by Governor 

 Whitaker of Oregon, was found strewn with the 

 bones of llamas, elephants, horses, sloths, and smaller 

 animals, with birds, and all were collected by Mr. 

 Sternberg and safely forwarded to Philadelphia. I 

 examined this locality myself in 1879 and obtained 

 further remains of extinct and recent species of 

 mammalia found mingled with numerous worked 

 flints." 



The reader will notice that Cope puts my expedi- 

 tion in '78 instead of '77 and that Dr. Shufeldt gives 

 Cope's visit to Fossil Lake as before mine, when, in 

 reality, it was two years later. 



On p. 420 of his memoir, Dr. Shufeldt writes: 

 " We must believe that it still remains problematical 

 whether man was there, and further comparative 

 search is demanded to decide whence came, and at 

 what time, those stone implements of human manu- 

 facture, commingled as they are with the bones of 

 the animals, many of which are long since extinct." 

 And Professor Cope says on the same subject: 

 " Scattered everywhere in the deposit were obsidian 

 implements of human manufacture. Some of these 

 were of inferior workmanship, and many of them 

 covered with a patin of no great thickness, which 

 completely replaced the luster of the surface. Other 

 specimens were bright as when first made. The 



