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Yale University,

New Haven, Conn., June 21, 1898.

Dear Mr. Reed: -

I have your letter of June 15th from the Freeze-out Hills, and I write at once in reply.

I thank you very much for your information about the Cycads and their geological position, and when I write on the subject, as I may do before long, I will give you full credit for the discovery, which interests me very much. I wish you would send me some of them as soon as you can conveniently, and I will give you their full value.

I was very sorry indeed to have you feel as you do about credit for your previous discoveries. I shall keep my promise fully about that in my Monographs, and you will then have no cause for complaint. I will look up the dates of the discoveries you mention as soon as I get time, and if I have been mistaken about them, I will make everything right. I wish to be a friend to you in every way I can, and I want you to be the same to me. Various people have tried to make trouble between us, and we may have misunderstood each other on some points, but I have always spoken in the highest terms of you as a collector and as a man, and remember with much pleasure the days I have spent with you in fossil hunting, and only wish I could be with you again, as we can both be of service to each other in many ways.

I am very sorry that I used the name you referred to. I do not remember to have used it before to any one who knew you, and had I supposed that you would be offended, I should never have done so. I heard the expression once only, years ago, just as I heard my friend Cody called " Buffalo Bill," and this, I believe, he has never objected to.

Please write me more fully about the geological position of the Cycads, and let me know if you found them in place, and also their exact position with reference to the Baptanodon and Atlantosaurus beds.