Saturday, Dec 24-1927. Cincinnati. Spent 1/2 hours in the Bot Art Museum- and then at 12:30 met Mr. Ernst Vaupel at the Bison House. Had lunch together and talked old times and his collecting until 3 P.M. Ernstin now 69 years old and in infir physical health, works every Saturday afternoon in his flower garden, and most every Dehday is out collecting fossils. He goes usually many miles away from Cincinnati in Indiana, Ky and Ohio. Collecting is good and especially for Bryozoa, Brachiopoda and Ostracoda. In the Branfield he has discovered a true great yielding great quantities of petrified joints. Says he is quite glad to give one any fossils, and wants nothing in them. Of which he said little. He sees him every two or three years. Min. Phinney has become an impractic person to live with. Our guest was the first draft of a man, and left his sisters and relatives something like $200,000. Many of Vaupels mannerisms are still those of our young days. A great talker, optimist and seeks to adapt himself to the changing conditions from time. The business and political life of today de says in all dollars and craft.