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I found in this bed hundreds of fragments of rock 

 filled with the glittering scales of fishes, as brilliant 

 now as in the days when they covered the bodies of 

 these old fish. Here, also, I discovered a huge 

 specimen of the long-horned species (Diplocanlus 

 magnicornisf), and others much smaller, which 

 proved to be the new Diplocaulus copei. " This," 

 my notes say, " promises to be one of the finest 

 localities I have found, and pays for the days of 

 search under trying conditions." 



When I reached camp, I found that George also 

 had had a red-letter day, and had found a bone bed 

 of minute animals on some brakes of Grey Creek 

 under the roots of the grass in a washout. He 

 brought in a skull, the smallest I had ever collected, 

 with a great many broken bones and teeth. One 

 specimen, which Dr. Broili named in my honor 

 ,Cardicephalus sternbergi, was not over half an inch 

 long. I secured here six skulls of the new Diplo- 

 caulus copei, also. 



On Monday, the twelfth of August, Dr. Broili 

 reached Seymour, and George and I met him at the 

 station. A tall, strong, fine-looking German, with 

 a full beard, he impressed me very favorably. The 

 great difficulty was that, owing to my deaf ear, it 

 was very hard for me to understand his broken 

 English, and unfortunately I could not speak a word 

 of German. I judged that he had learned his 



