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delights, of Pitssburgh. I was especially inter- 

 ested in the Fern Tree Group from Australia. 

 Gigantic tree-ferns they were, and it seemed tq 

 me I had gone back millions of years, to the Tree 

 Fern Fprests of the Carboniferous. 



On the 25th of March we went to Washington 

 and were the guests of my brother, General 

 George M. Sternberg at 2005 Massachusetts 

 Avenue. I had not seen him for years. 



I met for the first time Mr. 0. W. GUmour, 

 Curator of Fossil Reptiles, and Mr. Gidley, 

 Curator of Fossil Mammals. In the National 

 Museum I went over with them the grand 

 mounts in the Museum. Among them the first 

 example of a mounted skeleton of Trieeratops. 

 They have a wealth of Trieeratops skulls and 

 other material, collected largely by the late Mr. 

 J. B. Hatcher. Here also are groups of smaller 

 dinosaurs, and of mounted skeletons of the 

 Duck-billed form, and many mammals. We pass 

 ed a most enjoyable time here also. 



They were mounting a fine skeleton of a great 

 Stegosaur, or Plated Saurian, one of the most 

 unique of the dinosaurs. The huge dermal plates 

 of bone that line the back bone alternately, in 

 double rows, are often two and a half by three 

 feet in size, while the enormous spines that stick 

 out from the top surface of the tail, are, some of 

 them, over two feet in length. Since that en- 

 joyable March, they have mounted this noble 

 dinosaur as he lay entombed in his rocky cem- 



