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thing to take down all the mounts in American 

 Museums of Cretaceous tracodonts I do not 

 expect to live to see my views universally put in 

 practice. 



This specimen, No. 9, I wrote of to Dr. Wood- 

 ward, August 21st, 1913: "I have uncovered 

 enough of the floor to be able to give you some 

 valuable information. I have now traced the 

 entire column, except four feet of the caudal re- 

 gion. I have found one femur in position with 

 its tibia and fibula, one humerus and front foot, 

 and many ribs. The most disappointing thing: 

 we have only found the mandibles and preden- 

 tary, the maxilla of one side, the occiput and 

 part of the crest and the back of the skull." 



Later we found the entire skeleton except four 

 feet of the tail just back of the pelvic arch, 

 where it had been weathered out and destroyed, 

 and part of the skull. This skeleton was about 

 thirty feet long, and I considered it next in perfec- 

 tion to that of Mr. Brown's Corythosaurus. There 

 were in addition large patches of the skin impres- 

 sion. I show you the place where the body lay, 

 after we had wrapped it. It also shows the vast 

 amount of labor required to save it. 



It lay up a narrow gorge, too narrow to get a 

 horse up it. We were obliged to cut steps up 

 and down the rough way from the nearest point 

 we could reach it from camp and Levi had to 

 carry nearly all the water, plaster, and burlap, 

 and paper, etc., necessary to wrap a skeleton 



