Glasgow Montana

July 24th 1910

My dear Professor Osborn:

Our work is finished here for the season at least. The Trachodon iis on the way to New York and the outfit went out last night toward Canada.

There are eight boxes (8) weighing 3475 lbs. They should arrive in about three weeks. In any case you should put some on to work on it before I get back have the skull worked out first and then the fore limbs, next the hind limbs, tail and rest of column toward the skull leaving the ribs for final work. This is the order in which the specimen is best preserved.

Judging by past work in laboratory mounting and present cost in field work freight etc. this specimen can be restored and delivered mounted for $3000, which would leave us a margin of about $500 about actual cost. Please reserve right to study and describe specimen if new.

I hired Claude Willis to haul in the boxes with a four horse team while we came in with outfit. While loading our car for Canada yesterday a small cyclone struck the town destroying several buildings. There was no loss of life. Peter was holding one end of a tarpaulin over the wagon and it played snap the whip with him - no damage to any of us.

We have to lie over a day here for the Montana Central does not run on Sunday. Will arrive in Calgary Tuesday and Nevis Thursday. Nevis will be our address for next few days.

I am very much pleased with our work so far. We have made a record in taking out big fossils that is hard to beat. I hope our success continues.

Your letter came today just in time glad to hear the skull pieces up well and sloth group progresses.

What time could you visit us? I can tell after next week when and where we can be reached. There are probably plenty of mosquitoes there but they will be preferable to the extreme heat of this country. July 15th it was 114 in the shade in Jordan. I rode all day but it was mostly an endurance test. Water has all dried up in small streams with a little here and there on the Big Dry. Thousands of head of cattle range on that stream now. Will write from Nevis, Alberta.

Sincerely,

Barnum Brown

Trachodon Skeleton 1910:

-----Parts Missing -----------

Left scapula, and coracoid, carpals and most of right and left manus Right and left calcaneum left manus right and left calcaneum Left astragalus. All except six chevons. Distal half of tail

----Contents of Boxes --------

Box 1 = Packages

Box 2 = ulnae, radiae, humerii, ischiae, pubris

Box 3 = Skull

Box 4 = Tail

Box 5 = Femora and ribs

Box 6 = Tibiae, fibulae and scapula

Box 7 = Sacrum

Box 8 = Dorsal and cervical section