I request, therefore, while I am on, or near the ground, that you send me to "thrash out" the geology of one of the classic palaeontological localities, and demand that I make a preliminary report on the matter. If I dont hear from you in due time _ _____ I will take silence as consent go over the ground, and try to solve most of the difficult problems.

	Mr. Kay while I have been busily engaged in "office work" and other things which have demanded my attention has been getting out some things outside the quarry, -- some little Brontosaurus-like vertebrae about an inch long, with a few other associated bones, part of hind limb and foot