March 11 1907

Dear Prof. Osborn:

You asked me to write you at the museum but I presume that a line or so at Naples will be of interest to you and there will be a more extended report upon your arrival in New York.

I came in yesterday to do a lot of miscellaneous wrapping and arrange for packing cases, printing of labels etc. I saw Capt. Lyons for a few minutes at the Chemical Laboratory and he seemed well pleased that we were successful in our work.

I took another look about the museum and decided that our collection of small bones is already more extensive and more important than the collection here. The Palaemastodon skull is better than any in this museum or in London and we have a perfect pair of lower jaws (from Quarry B.)

Herr Markgraf's fossils are in our tent now, labeled, catalogued, and bandaged. He went with his outfit to some quarries of his, some 10 or 12 kilometers to the west. He has obtained Moeritherium, Palaemastodon and Arsinoitherium jaws and skull material there and he thought the chance of finding additional material was fairly good. He is to work ten days there and then, if he finds nothing he will return to our camp and prospect in that vicinity for a while, especially in the upper levels where he obtained some very important material, while you were with us. He is a good prospector and a hard worker and both Olsen and I like him, personally, very well.

Our own efforts are still confined to Quarry B, where we have just completed a section of "stripping." Olsen was beginning to prospect it the day I left.

David spends most of his time prospecting and finds, within a kilometer or so of camp, enough material to make it well worth his time. I let him come in to Kelouan to see his family while I am here in Cairo.

Photographs will be sent you at the museum, as soon as developed and printed.

The weather is splendid - much warmer during the day time but still cool at night. Our health is all that could be asked for.

The collection numbered, the day I left camp, nearly 200 specimens, with teeth, footbones ribs etc. unnumbered. Out of Herr Markgraf's jaws will add another order to the fauna, I am not at all sure that it is a Primate but it certainly is not an Ungulate.

I trust may have another letter from you before we leave for America.

I am with regard

Very Sincerely Yours,

Walter Granger