Lismas Mont. Aug. 7th 1909

Dear Professor Osborn:

Your letter of Aug. 2nd just received and read with pleasure. I am at the ferry tonight on a seventy mile ride up the river on the north side to make a preliminary reconnaissance of the Barb Hills opposite the mouth of Quaw Creek. This is a locality I have not yet seen which is evidently the termination of the Laramie deposit toward the north west. I still have about one weeks work prospecting on Hungry Creek which so far had been nearly barren of fossils. It will take about two weeks longer to finished the Triceratops specimen and haul it to Oswegs from which point most of the fossils will be shipped this year. After that we will move to the Barb Hills if they promise well of else around the Big Dry divide by way of Jordan to Calf Creek which flows into the Missouri west of Seven Blackfoot.

Triceratops material is by far the most abundant remains to be found as usual but rarely a perfect bone is to be seen Trachodon on the other hand is always well preserved. Have found two nearly complete skeletons in sandstone but to take them up would mean working on them the rest of the season and that cannot be considered with our fine collection of Trachodon material and girth of Triceratops. Have seen just two Tyrannnosaurus bones neither of which was well preserved but have found a small Carinvorous dinosaur jaw without teeth that is new to out collection. The alveoli are strikingly different from any other carnivore It is probably Ornithomimus.

Sorry Fairfeld was not with us last week when tow big roundups went by camp. They were very picturesque and the fellows were interesting. Both camps came over to see the "bug."

Will send a full report of my trip on return to the ferry.

Very Sincerely Yours

Barnum Brown