204 Conclusion 



nearly thirty feet long. The distance from the 

 wagon was nearly 9,n eighth of a mile. 



But that labor sank into insignificance com- 

 pared to the labor he had to strap beneath the 

 specimen his burlap strips in such a way that 

 the rock did not fall out. It would often take 

 him many minutes before he could get the strif' 

 to stick. He lay on his back and patted the plas- 

 ter soaked burlap with the ends of his fingers 

 until the blood came. Then often the plaster 

 would harden before he could get it to stick. 

 Then he had to take a new strip and go through 

 the same hard and patience-trying labor, filling 

 his eyes with the burning lime. In all the labor 

 we do in taking up a complete skeleton, there is 

 no part of it that requires so much patience and 

 so much skill as straping the under side. 



After this specimen was ready for hauling out 

 of the brakes we had to build a sled road to it 

 from the prairie and haul it to camp around 

 the badlands, about six miles, while it only lay 

 about a mile from camp in a bee-line. 



Now it seems almost incredible that after over 

 two months of such exhausting mental, physical 

 and soul-trying labor, it should be sent to the 

 bottom of the Atlantic Ocean by a German 

 Raider on English Commerce. If anything on 

 earth can prove the wantonness of such destruc- 

 tion, this is a good example. I have given fifty 

 years freely to science without money, often, and 

 without price. The best that is in me. So I 



