Mr. Earl Douglass

Missoula, Mont.



Dear Sir:



Your last letter was some time since.  I have delayed replying until I should have sent off the fossils which I promised to return to you.  This I did yesterday, my tardiness being in some measure occasioned by waiting to have small green locality labels pasted on the specimens:  The specimens returned are contained in two cigar boxes sent by mail which, should reach you about the same time as this letter.  In every case where a species was represented by two or more specimens I returned one at least, and usually half.  To this there are perhaps two exceptions where two specimens were so unlike that I was doubtful in referring them to the same species.  All the crinoids were temporarily retained with your permission, and I sent on nothing from a small collection collected from the Main Divide of the Rocky Mts.  These fossils are not very well preserved and I have not identified them specifically