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I also discovered a wonderful deposit of figs a 

 few rods from the Trachodon quarry. They fell 

 in sand among teeth and bones of reptiles and 

 fishes, as well as the impressions of rushes and 

 other aquatic plants, and shell fishes. The sand 

 packed solidly around them, and when they de- 

 cayed their form was firmly molded in the sand. 

 The cavity thus formed was filled with sand, and 

 an exact cast of the figs was produced. Until 

 then, less than a dozen fossil figs were known to 

 me. I also discovered five beautiful palmetto palm 

 leaves 18 inches in width, showing that the coun- 

 try at the time they grew was like the everglades 

 of Florida, ridges between great marshes, through 

 the center of which ran sluggish streams almost 

 at a level with the near-by ocean. The water was 

 beyond tidewater, however, it was sweet. 



In 1910 I found three Triceratops skulls and 

 George one. Two of them went to the Sencken- 

 berg Museum to make a couple of mounted skulls 

 for exhibition. We also secured much Trachodon 

 material in addition to that already mentioned, 

 a large part of a skeleton going to the British 

 Museum of Natural History. George also found 

 the most perfect specimen of a Trachodon tail I 

 had seen up to that time. I sent it to Dr. Marce- 

 lin Boule for the Paris Museum of Natural His- 

 tory. 



During the winter of 1911 we were preparing 

 a huge skull, some seven feet long, of Triceratops 

 for the Victoria Memorial Museum. Later, in 



