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Baylor County, located on a branch of the Fort 

 Worth and Denver Railroad. On my arrival in the 

 camp, through the assistance of the Royal Bavarian 

 Academy of Science, it was made possible for me to 

 take part in the collection from the beginning to the 

 end of August. I found already a very good collec- 

 tion of very rich materials, which, besides parts of 

 Dimetredon, Labidosaurus, Pariotichus, and other 

 Theromorphs, included an excellent collection of 

 different examples of Diplocaulus, of which some 

 still possessed the greater part of the vertebrae. 

 During my stay in that territory, our work princi- 

 pally consisted in making collections from our camp. 

 We were compelled, on account of scarcity of water 

 from the great heat, to keep near Seymour." 



I am a patriot, and it would have pleased me to 

 see all these splendid examples of ancient life enrich 

 our home museums ; but Germany is my fatherland, 

 at least it was the fatherland of my fathers, and I 

 am glad to have been able to build up there the best 

 collection of Kansas and Texas forms in Europe. 



One of the greatest prizes of the Munich Collec- 

 tion is a skeleton of Labidosaurus, now mounted 

 there and collected by myself. Labidosaurus is im- 

 portant because it belongs to a very ancient and 

 primitive group of reptiles, which, according to 

 Prof. H. F. Osborn and other authorities, were the 

 ancestors of all the later forms of reptiles. 



