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Cove, got my outfit and fossils, and moved over into 

 Haystack Valley. I remained there all winter, and 

 the next season secured another large collection. 

 Many of the specimens in it are described by Pro- 

 fessor Cope in Vol. Ill of the " Tertiary Verte- 

 brata." On p. xxvi and the two following pages 

 of the preface, he pays his collectors a high 

 compliment, which I give myself the pleasure of re- 

 peating here in his own words : " The same year 

 ['77] I employed Charles H. Sternberg to conduct 

 an exploration of the Cretaceous and Tertiary for- 

 mations of Kansas. After a successful search, I 

 sent Mr. Sternberg to Oregon. The Tertiary for- 

 mations explored in 1878 were the John Day and 

 Loup Fork of Oregon. The John Day formation 

 was chiefly examined on the John Day River and 

 the Loup Fork beds at various points in the same 

 region. These yielded about fifty species, many of 

 them represented in an admirable state of preserva- 

 tion." 



After mentioning the work of his other explorers, 

 he goes on to say : " Mr. Sternberg's expedition of 

 1878 was interrupted by the Bannock war, and both 

 himself and Mr. Wortman were compelled to leave 

 their camp and outfit in the field and fly to a place of 

 safety on their horses. It is evident that an en- 

 thusiastic devotion to science has actuated these ex- 

 plorers of our western wilderness, financial con- 



