Boat on Red Deer River Alberta

Aug. 30th 1910

Dear Professor Osborn:

There is a chance to send mail out tomorrow so I will write again to tell you of the discovery of a good many bones of a small Ornithomimus. There are two femora, humerus, pubes, and ischia several vertebrae, ribs and numerous foot bones in soft sand. It is not completely developed yet so I cannot tell whether we shall have anything of the skull or not. There will not of course be a skeleton but it is a fine beginning for one.

Carnivorous dinosaurs continue to be numerous but Ceratopsia are extremely rare nothing yet worth taking. We have finished the quarry securing six boxes of fine bone nearly all Carnivore.

I wish you could bribe the weatherman for we are having no end of cold wet days, it rains nearly every other day and delays us a great deal.

I hope to drift down a few miles in two of three days when we will finish here. I am addressing this letter to the Museum not knowing whether you have returned or not. Dr. Matthew will forward if you are still in Montana. I wrote instructions how to reach camp in my last letter. By train to Didsbury then by stage to Carbon and from there to Tolman's ferry by livery. Tolman will know about where we are. Plenty of bedding and heavy clothes are necessary out here now. The nights are very cold.

Our post office Fox Coulie is forty miles below and we get mail every other Saturday. {rest of letter cut}