Mr. Earl Douglass

Virginia City Montana



Sir:



Your two letters together with the collection of fossils which accompanied one of them were referred to me by the Director.  I am much interested in the Carboniferous paleontology of that region for I had the pleasure of writing the report on Carboniferous and Devonian fossils for the forthcoming Yellowstone Park monograph.  Since your locality is not so very far from Yellowstone Park I was suprised to find that your collection represents a   entirely different from that of the Madison limestone and is apparently younger.



I would like very much to examine more of this material and it would be especially interesting to obtain collections made at different points in the vertical extension of the strata, to determine if one or more periods are represented, and whether the