My dear Stewart



I wrote you some time ago that I thought that the collections here would be sent in a few days.  It has been a little delayed on account of the absence of Mr. McAndrews from Vernal caused by the death of Mr. Hood, the Superintendent of the Uintah Railway.  The fossils ought to go soon, now, it seems.



I will ask you to deposit $100 to the Field Account. During December I have worked 12 3/4 days counted in hours actually put in 102 for the Museum.  This would be $73.56.  I may have to pay the truck haul $1 per cwt from here to Watson though I think I can arrange so that you can pay the whole bill in one lump at the other end.



About a week ago I went to Vernal and at teh solicitation fo my friend, Dr. Francke, went to a place where he had discovered a lot of fossil tracks on the sandstone.  These are of Jurassic agae and therefore long antedate our big Dinosaurs.  They look to me like tracks of mammals and not like those of amphibians or reptiles.   Were it not an impossibility on would think at first that they were at least part of them the tracks of small modern rodents or carnivores.  They are not so perfect as many of those of the Connecticut Valley sandstones but they would certainly furnish an intereesting study.  As Schuchert says our knowledge of Mesozoic Mammals is almost restricted to lower jaws and isolated teeth.  If they are not mammals they are still interesting.  We could get a slab about 3 or 3 1/2 feet by 4 1/2 feet.  What would you and Peterson think about it.  We have extensive exposures of these sandstones near our house and the quarry and when I have time I will make a search.  The other are about 35 miles away near Vernal



Earl Douglass