lished in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History some time ago.  I have had a very careful search made by Mr. Peterson, and he reports to me he cannot find this cranium.  I write to ask what your recollection in reference to the matter is.  Did you return all the material loaned by the American Museum to you?  It was not borrowed, I understand, by this Museum:  you were personally resposible for it, and the article was not published in the publications of this institution.  Can you give us any clue to the whereabouts fo thsi cranium?  We do not like to lose things, and do not like to have it charged against you or any other of our force that they have been neglectful.  I am writing to Osborn telling him telling him I am making every effort to trace the missing specimen and have written you for information concerning it, and that he in the mean while must be patient.



We have had a very blustering term of weather extending through the month of March, with deep snown and great cold, in fact March has been a winter month with us.  April comes in with milder airs, though to-day the skies are overcast and the air is very cold and raw.  I think I shall come out to take a look at the work that is being done in the not distant future.  I am very anxious that everything should be accomplished that can be accomplished to secure a good representation of what remains in that quarry, but you must undertand that permission to continue our work there will depend wholly on the manner in which the work we are doing approves itself to the authorities at Washington.  They have in their communications indicated that we can continue from year to year to carry on our work provided the work is prosecuted with vigor.  I look to you to see that this is done.