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University Studies. 



Vol. II. JANUARY, i8gy. No. 2. 



I. — History of the Discovery and Report of Progress in the 

 Study of Ddemonelix} 



By ERWIN HINCKLEY BARBOUR. 



On several former occasions the author has described at 

 some length the new fossil Daemonelix. But in each case this 

 Avas done cautiously, and with a full recognition of the fact 

 that the author was treading on new ground. Even now, 

 after four years of study — such as could be snatched at odd 

 moments — he must still speak cautiously and tentatively, lest 

 mistakes be made and misconceptions result. 



The author visited the region of the Daemonelix beds for 

 the first time in June of 1891. It had been his intention all 

 along to explore this field in the interest of Iowa College, and 

 with that end in view all the appropriations of the year previ- 

 ous had been carefully husbanded. In the meantime, having 

 received and accepted a call to the University of Nebraska, he 

 set out in the interests of that institution. 



The exact spot in which Daemonelix was to be found was 

 really decided by Professor J. S. Kingsley, who had visited 

 the Bad Lands before, and out of his interest in the region 

 had urged the writer to go thither, and had even prearranged 

 many of the details of the trip. 



Late in the afternoon of June 29, we drove for the fir&fe 

 time to the Daemonelix beds, making a cursory review of the 



' Read before the Nebraska Academy of Science, January 3, 1893. 



Univkbsity SiUDiES, Vol. II., No. 2, January, 1897. gj^ 



