Ii8 TJie Ajnerican Geologist. August, louo 
"Philadelphia, June 15, 1893. Dear F. * * I am well some- 
times and when a little off I know the treatment, so that I can cure 
myself. 
I go in a week or so to N. Dakota with Brown of the University, 
to collect saurians in the Laramie. 
Thanks for your kind recollection of me. If possible I will come 
out to the Inn to see you before I go, but cannot say positively. * * 
* * * * P. S. I want to mention something else. You are a 
very generous man, and have been so to me often. But in one point 
you consult your own feelings in a preeminent degree. I refer to the 
Academy N. Sciences. Just now is a turning point in its history, and 
very probably in my fortunes as well. If a favorable council is se- 
cured I will go in as Prof.. Vert. Paleontology, probably as a life posi- 
tion. * * If not, I am left, so far as Phila., is concerned, and prob- 
ably in other ways for several years; perhaps always. * * We will 
not get out the full force for * * Tuesday next, and the others are 
as usual, the loafers and Co. We need every vote. Won't you cast 
one for us?" * * 
"Fort Supply. August 20, 1893. * * In the evening we left for 
Kansas City, where we found the train for the Panhandle would not 
go till night. We concluded to put in the day at the University of 
Lawrence instead of at Kansas City. * * We examined the Uni- 
versity Museum before dinner with Prof. Hayworth, as both Prest. 
Snow and my friend Prof. Williston w-ere absent. * * The first 
afternoon Lieut. Fox took us out to the "Devil's Gap," five miles 
north of here, and we found the geology interesting, and partly new. 
We found a great bed of fossil shells which I recognized as a Texas 
formation, and under it the Red Beds which I came to study. We 
found some bones on the top of these, and I am in hopes that we 
have found a formation of some importance." * * 
"Miami, Texas, August 24, 1893. * * We made three expedi- 
tions out from Supply to the fossiliferous beds we discovered, and 
got a fine box full and shipped them to the Academ.y of Natural 
Sciences. With them I sent a bottle of alcoholics, for lizards and 
snakes are rather common. It rained one day so we stayed at home, 
and the next day the country bloomed with flowers. Chief among 
them is a lovely Sabbatia (Gentianaceae), of which I enclose a speci- 
men. * * We explored the Trias round Fort Supply without re- 
sult. It is a provoking formation, for fossils are very hard to find in 
it. The formation we are in now is rarely so disappointing, although 
we may have to go to Mobetie before we find anything." * * 
"Wellington, Kansas. September i, 1893. * * Everybody in this 
country is interested or excited about opening of the Cherokee strip, 
which forms about one-third of the territory of Oklahoma. It is one 
of the few parts of the United States where a man can get a home- 
stead of 160 acres at the government figures of $1.00 to $2.00 per 
acre. Thousands of poor people, with wagons and camp outfit, are 
waiting on the border for the opening day and there will be a great 
