Story of a Monster Fish 11 



and it was a great comfort and pleasure to have 

 a woman in camp, and we soon noticed a change 

 in the culinary department. It seemed like 

 home to have a daughter and grandchildren in 

 this desert land, and when we came in from a 

 hard day's work in the fossil beds they helped 

 make us forget our labor and our care. Thesf; 

 records of work in the Laramie, or rather as 

 they are now called, the Lance beds ( from Lance 

 Creek in the immediate vicinity), show plainly 

 that persistent, untiring efforts in a field (that 

 was supposed to be exhausted by other explor- 

 ers), by trained collectors, will meet with good 

 results. Thirteen Triceratops skulls, I believe, 

 were recorded by Hatcher, who with others spent 

 years here. We not only secured six Triceratops 

 skulls, but, what was worth far more, the nearly 

 entire skeletons of two trachodonts wrapped in 

 their skins, giving science an entirely new con- 

 ception of these dinosaurs. 



In 1911, I sent George to western Kansas with 

 a party to collect in the Chalk and with wonder- 

 ful results; for though I had secured four skele- 

 tons of the famous Tarpon-like fish of the Cre- 

 taceous, named Portheus molossus by Cope,, he 

 succeeded in finding the most complete skeleton 

 known to science, now mounted in the British 

 Museum of Natural History, in London. Mr. 

 Pycraft, has pictured it in the London Illus- 

 trated News for March 1, 1913. "The giant to 

 which I refer now" (he says), "has been dead a 



