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The fossils collected today have been fine. Pleasant this evening.

Tuesday, July 3, 1906 July 3, 1906

Arose at 5:30, had breakfast and Harry and I started for the fossil beds at 7:20. Markman and Dodds joined us at 10:30 and by 11 a.m. we had 756 specimens. The wagon was all loaded and Markman and Dodds started to drive down west side of Crow Creek Crow Creek, Colorado, while Harry and I walked a couple of miles on east side and then joined the wagon. Reached Greeley Greeley, Colorado at 5 p.m. boxed and shipped the plants, fossils etc. and drove north one mile to cache la Poudre Cache La Poudre to camp. Had a good beefsteak supper with bread, the first we have had for a long time. I am puzzled about the formation at last night’s camp. O. glabra Ostrea glabra, Viviparus Viviparus (sic) and one specimen of Physa Physa indicates Laramie but some of the other species look marine to me, which would indicate Fox Hills. At the brow of the gentle slope are great quantities of Ostrea glabra Ostrea glabra and fragments of some other bivalve bivalve