Story of a Monster Fish 3 



as personal liberty is concerned that I was all 

 this time in the employ of his Royal Majesty 

 George the Fifth of England and ruler of the 

 British Empire. I have learned, I believe, that 

 a man is as much a man amidst the snows of the 

 Lady of the North, under the Union Jack, as un- 

 der my own beloved Stars and Stripes. Our 

 hopes, our ideals, our aims are much the same. 



I will hurry over the first two years spent in 

 the fossil fields of the United States after Henry 

 Holt and Company published "The Life of a Fos- 

 sil Hunter." In 1910 we went to Wyoming. On 

 Schneider Creek my second son, Charles M., made 

 the discovery of the most remarkable duck- 

 billed dinosaur the world has ever seen. The 

 Trachodon I described in the last Chapter of 

 "The Life of a Fossil Hunter" was the best one 

 that had been discovered up to that time. Pro- 

 fessor R. S. Lull of Yale University in speaking 

 of the specimen George F. Sternberg had found 

 in 1908 says in his paper, "On Ten Years Pro- 

 gress in Dinosaurs," page 210 Proceedings of the 

 Paleontological Society, 1912: "Impressions of 

 the skin of this animal (Trachodon or duck-billed 

 dinosaur ) , were already known from material in 

 Washington, and from the fragment of a tail col- 

 lected by Barnum Brown. It remained for the 

 veteran collector Charles H. Sternberg however, 

 in 1908, in Converse County, to bring to light by 

 the aid of his three sons the most marveously pre- 

 served dinosaur known to ( Fig. 1 ) science. Here 



