My dear Stewart -



We returned from another trip into the field day before yesterday.  That evening I received your letter of the 7th.  As you are aware, from former reconnaisance work, I had great faithe in the possibilities here, but it is turning out better than I expected.  It seems that wherever we go we could spend the season in the vicinity.  I discovered some fish-beds in the Green River and when we went out to get some we found the reamins fo crocodiles, turtles, lizards, birds, and mammals wich were nearly or entirely unknown in this formation.  We found a fine place for collecting insects in another locality.  We went there and collected 1000 or more specimens of inscets but besides this we got not only leaves and stems of plants but fruits and fruit clusters.  We probably have now over 2000 specimens of insects, not including rocks which are swarming with countless myriads fo the larvae of inscets.  It seems that much of the vast amount of oil and oil resideue for which the Green River is famous came from these larvae which were imprisoned in the mud, entire. We  have found several flowers in this formation.  We have collected perhaps nearly a hundred of the fish, but as yet have no large showslab.  We have enough of the huge Dinosaurs for the present and it seems to me these are just as interesitng scientifically, educationally, Geologically, and practically, and they do not cost so much to prepare adn frieght is cheaper.



In our collecting we are mindful of the show and educational sides as well as the scientific.  It is a splendid thing to go to other contients and find what has lived there to find new forms