THE 
AMERICAN NATURALIST 
Ver 2 Stk: March, 1895. 339 
IN THE REGION OF THE NEW FOSSIL, DAEMONELIX. 
By FREDERICK C. KENYON. 
As important as they have been to the paleontologist in 
yielding perfect remains of the strange looking mammals of 
Miocene times, the Bad-lands of Nebraska and South Dakota 
with the neighboring region have received very little atten- 
tion outside of some of the early government surveys. From 
the common geological text books one learns that they are in 
the bed of a Miocene lake, which like several others of the 
same times on the other side of the Rocky Mountains, received 
the bones of the animals living on the surrounding shores and 
buried them under a great mass of sediment. Nearly all of 
what little has been written has been taken from the writings 
of Hayden and the notes of Dr. Evans, neither of whom pos- 
sessed a camera to enable them to give their readers an ade- 
quate pictorial idea of the wonderful region that they describe 
in a few glowing words. 
During the summer of 1893 it was my good fortune to spend 
several weeks in this region in a party that, in consequence of 
the generosity of the president of the board of regents of the 
University of Nebraska, had become known as the “ Morrill 
Geological Expedition.” Our main object was to study and 
collect sy strange new fossil made known to science during 
