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Many of the members also expected to se- 
cure a Dinosaur each, but the magnitude 
of the work soon changed enthusiasm into 
regret. In the very beginning, alarming 
setbacks are encountered when climbing 
the hills in any direction for a ‘ bone lead.’ 
Having the good fortune to discover one, 
the real work then begins in the digging, 
only to find that every bone is cracked into 
innumerable pieces. These must be band- 
aged and set in plaster, and when all is 
hard the bones can be turned to undergo 
more bandaging. This means that one 
must have patience, be expert with pick 
and shovel, with gunny sacking and plaster, 
and with saw and hammer. However, with 
all these difficulties to overcome, no less 
than six car loads of bones were shipped 
this summer from Medicine Bow, a little 
village on the Union Pacific Railroad in 
Wyoming, by specially organized parties 
from the Universities of Wyoming and 
Kansas, and the Field, Carnegie and Ameri- 
ean Museums of Natural History. 
In no one place are complete Dinosaur 
skeletons found. Sometimes a ‘quarry’ 
will yield a lot of vertebree, or a number of 
either hind or fore limbs, or there is a gen- 
eral mixture of parts of animals of different 
genera. To make an adequate collection of 
Jurassic Dinosaurs, therefore, requires sev- 
eral successful field seasons. The cost is 
still further enhanced since in the labora- 
tory the bones must be cleaned, hardened 
and restored before they are ready for study 
and exhibition. On account of these con- 
ditions and the further one that Dinosaur 
skeletons are very large, the work is ex- 
tremely expensive. We can, therefore, be- 
lieve that the best skeleton of Brontosaurus 
in Professor Marsh’s collection, an imperfect 
one, cost him $10,000. 
The wonderful newspaper stories of last 
spring about the finding of a Dinosaur in- 
dicating a length of 130 feet is the prize 
paleontological story of the season. The 
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“ghoul of science, Mr. Reed” outdoes 
Stockton when he writes ‘that the animal 
now being brought to light weighed in life 
about sixty tons, that he had a neck thirty 
feet in length, and a tail perhaps sixty feet 
in length. His ribs are about nine feet in 
length, and the cavity of his body with the 
lungs and entrails out, would have made a 
hall thirty-four feet in length, sixteen feet 
in width, and arched over probably twelve 
feet in height. A round steak taken from 
the ham of the animal would have been at 
least twelve feet in diameter. * * * A 
set of fours in cavalry could easily have 
ridden abreast between his front and hind 
legs, provided he had not objected. Every 
time he put his foot down it covered more 
than a square yard of ground and must 
have fairly shaken the earth, * * * 
When we get it here we shall probably 
place ittemporarily inthe campus * * * 
and we shall work as rapidly as possible in 
restoring our great prize to a normal condi- 
tion here at Larmie.’’ This wonderful story 
is based on two little holes in the Freeze 
Out Hills, which required about a day to 
dig. When all is exhumed, if there is any- 
thing to exhume, it will be found that ‘our 
great prize’ is after all but a normal Dino- 
saur. The excitement produced by the 
story, however, has another side, and a 
good one, since it led our newest Museum 
to take up the making of a collection of ex- 
tinct monsters. 
One of the great needs for geological 
work in Wyoming is good maps. Those 
available this summer were very poor ; 
therefore nothing was attempted in the 
way of preparing geological maps. 
In addition to the collections made and 
the individual ‘ experience’ the expedition 
secured a number of new species of inverte- 
brates. They located two new leaf horizons 
in the Fox Hills formation, a limestone 
with an abundance of fossils in the Red 
Beds supposed to be of Triassic age, and an- 
