234 Life of a Fossil Hunter 



Texan Permian. The American Museum, which 

 secured this splendid material, was unable to de- 

 scribe and publish it then, while the results of my 

 famous expedition to these beds in 1901 for the 

 Royal Museum of Munich were at once described by 

 Dr. Broili. Consequently the American Museum 

 lost much of the glory which attaches to the descrip- 

 tion of new material. However, the Permian col- 

 lection in the American Museum is now being 

 worked out with results of great importance to 

 science. 



Encouraged by my success on this expedition, I 

 set out with high hopes on January twentieth of the 

 following year to continue my work for Professor 

 Cope in these beds. On reaching my headquarters 

 at Seymour, I succeeded in hiring an old man with a 

 a team and wagon, and on the twenty-fifth of 

 January, I made my first camp on Bushy Creek, ten 

 miles north of Seymour. 



Three days later I found what I believed 

 promised to be a fine specimen of the ladder-spined 

 reptile, Naosaurus, called fin-backed by Cope. A 

 number of perfect spines were exposed, presenting 

 the possibility of securing a complete specimen. I 

 worked very carefully over this skeleton, hoping to 

 take it out whole and in good shape. It lay in red 

 and white sandstone, which easily disintegrated on 

 the surface into shale-like flakes. The spines and 



