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Lambe as rapidly as his increasing knowledge and discrimination would 

 permit. Concerning publication, Dr. Osborn expressed his wishes as 

 follows : 



"I desire also to make an arrangement regarding publication which will be 

 entirely fair to Mr. Lambe, because the lion's share of the actual work must 

 necessarily fall upon him both of collecting, arranging, and working up the 

 fossils. For this, together with whatever writing he does, he should receive 

 the fullest credit." ^ 



In May, 1902, Dr. Osborn wrote the Director of the Canadian Geo- 

 logical Survey, intimating that he wished to relinquish the position of 

 honorary vertebrate paleontologist and entrust the entire work to Mr. 

 Lambe. The vertebrate paleontological work of the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey, which Dr. Osborn had also assumed at the request of Dr. 

 Walcott, and the consequent heavy draft on his time, was probably the 

 immediate occasion of his desire to entrust the continuation of the Cana- 

 dian work to Lambe at that time. 



The letters of Dr. Osborn to the Director of the Canadian Survey, 

 written during Mr. Lambe's studies at Columbia, express a high opinion 

 of Lambe's work. In December, 1903, Dr. Osborn recommended the 

 appointment of Mr. Lambe as vertebrate paleontologist of the Canadian 

 Survey, in a letter to the Minister then in charge of the Survey, which 

 follows : 



"I have had the pleasure during the last few years to succeed the late Prof. 

 Edward D. Cope as (honorary) paleontologist of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada. My duties on the United States Geological Survey and in this insti- 

 tution [American Museum of Natural History] have become so pressing that 

 I have been obliged to resign the position, I have had associated with me on 

 the Canadian Survey Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe, and I have formed a high 

 opinion of his character and ability. I strongly recommend him to your con- 

 sideration as vertebrate paleontologist. 



"Great discoveries have been made in the Northwest Territory, and will be 

 made in the future ; and it appears to be of the utmost importance for the 

 progress of science in general, the advancement of the Canadian Survey, and 

 of the great museum which has been approved by your government, that 

 vertebrate paleontology should form a special department of research and be 

 cared for by an able specialist. 



"I am convinced that Mr. Lambe will fill this position with great credit to 

 the government, and that his appointment will meet scientific approval every- 

 where." * 



Lambe's appointment as vertebrate paleontologist of the Canadian 

 Geological Survey followed shortly after this recommendation was made. 



^ Letter to George M. Dawson, May 1, 1900. 



* Tyetter to the Hon. Clifford Sifton, M. P., December 11, 1903, 



