388 S. WELLER FOSSILS AS AID IN TEACHING STRATIGRAPHY 



chapter of the geological history which has not yet been completely read. 

 He will be working out an interpretation of a little scrap of the scattered 

 paleontological record, to be added to the already known portion of the 

 fascinating story. 



In conclusion, let me again insist that the real way to impart knowl- 

 edge of fossils and paleontology is through the agency of the laboratory 

 and the field. The lecture has its part to play, but this is entirely sec- 

 ondary to the actual contact with the objects themselves with which the 

 paleontologist deals. 



