Aug 12 Sunday, Ottawa. Spend the morning with Dallas R. Billings. He showed me a number of fossils. Among others a Cybceratoidy which that this fossil was a free animal. The plates both sides are granular but different granules. The lower side has the radially plate mate markups, pointed by Billings. The upper has small close adjoining plates. The lower side has a central opening which may have been formed as protruding above the upper plates surface. He is willing to exchange us Trector and California fossils. See to send him first class Illinois crinoids and then other fossils. Billings thanks very little of Dr. Ami by a word dear favor from Prof. Whitcaves. He remarks that the latter is so difficult to get his doggin nights or to walk at the home. He thanks him again. Billings family are Boston logalists. They settle near Ottawa at "Billings Bridge" on a lumbering camp. Although Billings was from several miles away from here, was a fine looking smart broad shouldered man given tall. Studied law and practiced it for a time and then after a literary turn of mind enjoyed his out with the