Edward Drinker Cope. — Frazer. 107 
If you however think that any good will result from such a meeting 
I will be present at your invitation, and will hope for the best." * * 
"N. P. R. R. near Fallon on the Yellowstone, September 9, 1883. 
* * * Yesterday noon I got in from my Little Missouri expedition, 
and took the train at 3 a. m. for Helena this morning. The trip lasted 
nearly ten days and was in some ways very satisfactory. I did not get 
what I went for, but I made a special discovery, which I did 
not expect. * * I got 20 species, 14 of them Mammalia. The most 
abundant rhinoceroses, of which I obtained the greater part of a skull, 
besides many other parts and specimens. The next most perfect was 
the hog with legs to his chin, of which I had but one specimen before, 
which I got in Colorado in 1873 named Elotherium ramosum. Then 
there are a small dog; a sabre-tooth tiger, large, three-toed horse, etc., 
etc. I made another camp by a stream of white sand. We dug 3-4 
holes and got beautiful water. * * The discovery of the fossil bed 
in question enables me to extend the Lower Miocene (White River) 
formation 200 miles N. W. of its most northern boundary previously 
known." * * * 
"Colorado Springs, September 19, 1883. * * i expected to get a 
certain fine fossil fish specimen I saw at Fossil station. I succeeded 
and on examination found it to be a new kind of a gar, which had a 
blunt nose instead of a long bill, as most gars have. I went exploring 
among the red-beds below the fish beds and took out with my own 
hands the skull and part of the skeleton of a Coryphodon about as 
large as a cow. I set a man to work to get the rest of the skeleton. 
* * Meanwhile I bought very cheap, two stingrays and other things, 
with a very peculiar fish related to the sturgeons, and what is most 
interesting the skull of a large bird related to the ostrich, which is 
quite new." * " 
"Eight miles S. of Plaza, Socorro Co., San Francisco Canyon, New 
Mexico, October 10, 1883. * * Two days I spent in fishing with 
my net, I found many fishes of only five species, all very rare, and 
one probably' new. I caught a totally new species of water snake of a 
new genus. It is a pretty thing 31 inches long, with 7 rows of brown 
spots on an ashen ground. I sent a description to the Naturalist un- 
der the name of Atomarchus multimaculatus. 
* * * I hung up the cofifee-pots, water-pails and frying-pan on 
a short limb with hooks and crooks, ,and old grizzly will have to 
stretch to reach them. I put my bed on a little higher ground than the 
rest of the camp, where holly leaved oak, Spanish bayonets and 
huge cacti dot the grass. ■ A hole under a large rock near by is inhab- 
ited by — I don't know what, but it'll have to speak loud if it awakes 
me to-night." * * 
I dreamed of home the other night, I will see what I can do to- 
night." * * 
"Perry's Ranch, Mogollon Mts., October 13, 1883. * * As we 
went to bed, the wind blew cold so I laid my blankets behind a cedar 
bush, and under an oak. In the night I was awakened by a snorting 
