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English from an Englishman and not from an 

 American, as he used a peculiar brogue with which 

 I was not familiar. George learned to understand 

 him better, and they became the best of friends. 



We went back to camp, where we had the pleasure 

 of Dr. Broili's company for two weeks, during 

 which I formed a friendship which I have always 

 deeply appreciated. He was delighted with my 

 work and the material we had secured, but, as he 

 says in the introduction to his great work describ- 

 ing my material, he could not stand the heat. 



He describes part of my material in his splendid 

 work on the Permian Stegocephala and reptiles, 

 published in Stuttgart, with one hundred and twenty 

 pages of text and thirteen fine plates. He says on 

 p.i : " The excellent results of the expedition of Mr. 

 Sternberg in the spring of 1901 to Texas, which 

 brought many very valuable specimens of Eryops, 

 Dimetroden, and Labidosaurus to the Paleontologi- 

 cal Museum's collection, caused the conservator of 

 the Royal Paleontological Collection, Councillor von 

 Zittel, to send out in the year of 1901 a second ex- 

 pedition to the Permian beds of the same territory, 

 he being again successful in securing Mr. Charles 

 Sternberg, the excellent collector from Lawrence, 

 Kansas. Already in June of the same year he was 

 in the midst of his sphere of activity in the Wichita 

 Permian beds, near the small town of Seymour, 



