Mr. Coggeshall:



Your joint report with Mr. Peterson, under date of August 27, has been received, and I have today written Mr. Douglass instruction him to concentrate his efforts upon the Stegosaurus and the small Dinosaur and also to complete his maps and records. 



The ultimate disposition of the two specimens of Diplodocus, which you metnion, will of course have to be taken up after your return and after a conference with the Museum Committee.  Your suggestion as to having the United States Government take over the work is a good one, but I am not sure that they have money enough to do it.  In any event we cannot decide this by mail.



I will be very glad to have both you and Peterson back at the Museum and talk the matter over with you.  When do you expect to return?



Please give this to Mr. Peterson and ask him to consider it a joint letter to both of you.