ii6 The Amcrica?i Geologist. August, i90o 
from Iowa Yearly Mtg. I had never heard of it before. The teacher 
of the community is a Prof. Moore, who was a student of Earlham, 
and of Haverford after I left there. The people are superior to the 
general run of settlers in this country, as their origin would indi- 
cate." * * 
Camp on Holmes Cr., June lo, 1892 * * * Insects are very 
friendly here. They accumulate under anything you lay down in 
the grass, for shade; and fluids attract many. Two beautiful 
moths came to my mouth for a drink last evening, and another 
has just now quenched his thirst in the same way. Beetles get 
into the bedding but do no harm, but large ants are very "bad medi- 
cine,' as I concluded when I was stung by one last night, and hopped 
suddenly out of my blankets. If I get up in the night I move with 
great care for fear of "cow-killers"' (multillas). A small kind stung 
me yesterday. Horned and other lizards and rattlesnakes abound." * 
"Clarendon, Texas, June 13, 1892. Dear F. Your very wel- 
come letter from Paris reached me at the cow-village of Espuella in 
the Pan Handle of Texas, and this reply finds me 125 miles north of 
that place, still further "panhandled". At the Denver and Ft. Worth 
R. R. town of Clarendon. It has say 1,500 inhabitants and is quite 
civilized. E. g. good beer is 5 c. p. glass and soda water do.; a rarity 
in this country where they charge loc or 25c for two drinks. 
I have had a ride on a "gray stallion of 250 miles (from Big Spring 
on the Texas and Pacific R. R. almost due S. of here), and am much 
the better of it in health. We have had all kinds of weather except rain, 
and this is a dry season for even this dry country. The weather has 
been alternately cold and hot, often presenting a difference between 
day and night of 30 to 40 degrees. * * * 
Scientifically we have had a successful trip. Our line has been 
along the eastern escarpment of the Staked Plains, with an occasional 
excursion on the plains and across its spurs. We have accessible Per- 
mian, Trias, Loup Fork, and Blanco beds. Lower down the country 
we had Cretaceous-marine; all the beds here are lacustrine or estuary. 
The Blanco beds are above the Loup Fork and contain a Cret. fauna, 
mostly mammals. We have so far 14 species, of which 10 are new to 
science — 2 of them Mastodons. The Loup Fork beds we have just 
discovered here — and the fossils are very numerous. We found a 
grave yard of horses (3 sp.), camels (2 sp.), and Mastodons (i or 2 
sp.). The ground was covered far across with their bones and on the 
bank we got out in a few hours, 6 nearly perfect skulls — all horses. 
So far no Carnivora, but we will get them I suppose. We got none 
on the Blanco bed. This formation forms the entire surface of the 
Llano Estacado, and is underlaid by Trias and Permian. We only 
found the Loup Fork here, and how far passes under the plains we 
have yet to know. 
Your information from European sources is very interesting. You 
did right in talking with Profs. Cappellini and Daubree. I am not 
proud of my share in the Cuvier Prize. 
