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I will now mention several articles which are somewhat remotely 

 related to the Kansas question. A collection was made in 1901 from 

 the Wichita beds near Seymour, Baylor County, in northern Texas 

 for the Royal Museum of Munich by Charles H. Sternberg who had 

 previously collected in the same general region for the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology of Harvard University and for Professor 

 Cope, a popular account of which may be found in his book.^ The 

 specimens sent to the Royal Museum of Munich have been described 

 by Dr. Ferdinand Broili and L. Neumayer and it is to be especially 

 noted that Dr. Broili made a trip to this country and spent two weeks 

 in the field with Mr. Sternberg while the collection was being made. 

 Dr. Broili in his monograph describing the Permian Stegocephals and 

 reptiles of Texas in this collection has expressed the following opinion 

 concerning the age of the deposits in Vermilion County, IHinois, 

 which Professor Cope called Permian, and those near Seymour in 

 northern Texas under his general discussion of the Permian of Illinois 

 and Texas: The Wichita beds in Texas compared with the bone 

 bed of Illinois in my opinion represent in point of time the younger 

 formation.^ Near the close of this discussion Dr. Broili again 

 referred to the correlation of the Permian deposits of these two states 

 as follows: These circumstances, I believe, make the supposition 

 appear legitimate that the strata of Texas, when compared with 

 exposures in Illinois, represent in point of time the younger formation. 

 Another point which likewise favors this opinion is the fact that the 

 genera from the two localities agree, but not the species.^ 



Finally, near the close of the monograph, under his general con- 

 clusions, Dr. Broili made the following statement concerning the 

 vertebrate fossils: As we may then infer from the foregoing, the verte- 

 brate fossils from the North American Permian consequently afford 

 a considerable number of points of similarity with European and Afri- 

 can forms; these relations might turn out to be even closer, especially 

 if the Russian deposits should be more carefully investigated in their 

 paleontological relations. ^ 



I The Life of a Fossil Hunter, 1909, pp. 205-65. 



' Palaeontographica, Vol. LI, 1904, p. 5. This monograph, however, di*d not 

 come under my notice until after the publication of my paper of September, 1905. 

 3 Ibid., p. 6. 4 Ibid., p. 105. 



