and travel four hundred miles or more by team before entering the field. The advent of the 

 Union Pacific R. R. added vigor to the research work, and from that day to this, not a season 

 has passed but several expeditions have spent the summer in the Wyoming fields. 



" Thus far the work has been carried on only by institutions having ample means, or by 

 private parties especially interested in the work. In consequence the average, in fact the 

 most of our American universities and colleges, know nothing of the vast resources of this 

 State, nor do they know anything about the rare fossils, except as they review the published 

 works of paleontologists. Most of the American students have been deprived of studying 

 these interesting forms, and the average American citizen has never had the opportunity of 

 seeing these great prehistoric remains, simply because they have been taken, as a rule, to the 

 far east, and there placed in large museums. 



"The fields are ample for all who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity to collect 

 and create museums as large, if not larger than any that have been built up during the 

 last quarter of the century. 



"The work in procuring these rare specimens is as exciting as gold hunting, and many 

 times one finds bones that are worth more than their weight in gold. While the work is 

 intensely interesting, and, one might say, exciting, it has many more sides. There is the 

 contact with the field, which no geologist can afford to be without; there are the numerous 

 questions in geology and paleontology to study which can only be accomplished in the field; 

 then, there are the vicissitudes of camp life the long drives for a "water hole," the hunting 

 of grass for horses, and numerous other experiences which all like to repeat after they are 

 home from a summer's field experiences, and are busily engaged in restoring and studying 

 the material gained. 



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