specimens safely we started for a trip of three or four days to a place above Dragon where I had long wished to make a thorough search for Wasatch and Fort Union Mammals. The region certainly has an enticing look for a fossil-hunter but up in that elevated region there was too much snow for prospecting.

I enclose a copy of a letter from the Secretary of the interior. There is no more doubt that the 80 acres which we had surveyed and on which the quarry is located has been created into a national monument. I am as much in the dark as to how it came about as ever. Have only guesses. However, I judge by the above mentioned letter that there