Show I FUSIL HOATfcKb A Party Doing Utah und Wyoming Wilds Sunday last Dr J L Wortman O A Peterson W W Granger J D Irving and A Thomson employees of the American museum of New York City passed through Vernal on their way to the Laclede Meadows in Wyoming Wy-oming The party came out in February Feb-ruary and have been on the reservations reserva-tions making collections of fossils and curios They claim to have made the best collection of fossils in the United States the only thing lacking lack-ing to make their collection complete was Hoke Smiths Indian commissioners commis-sioners which they failed to get The party intend to spend a month in Browns Park making collections and then go on to their destination the LacVede Meadows where they will put in the balance of the season Dr J L Wortman a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania is a physician and surgeon and ranks next to none as a scientist with 22 years experience in the desert lands of the west Dr Wortman remarked during his conversation that Professor Osborn curator of department of geology and paleontology desires to present a complete history of mam malog of the North American continent con-tinent asserting that this is the country par excellence for the development of that subject Dr Wortman says that the opportunities I are excellent for tracing the history of the mammalian life from its primitive primi-tive being up to its prerent perfection perfec-tion The deposits of the ancient lake basins which took place along the western skirts of the Rocky Mountains I Moun-tains gives us a continuous and connected con-nected series reaching over a period I of one half million years By these I series the history of the camel horse and rhinocereros are traced in addition I ad-dition to those important knowledge I can be obtained relative to the history his-tory of cats seals dogs bear etc Dr Wortmans conversation was very interesting and could have been listened list-ened to much longer could he have spared the time Vernal Express |