October 25, Saturday, Ardmore. A fine but warm morning. We got started at 8:45. There are nine ten in the party. Mr. Bean of Texas came of from Fort Worth to join the party. There are altogether too many in the party for the good of the party. Too- this is the men do not know or do not care to collect. They are out for a bio-nic and they are laying it at the expense of the Empire Co. Our first collecting ground was to a place 7 miles north and 2 west of Ardmore. Here we found a vertical limestone (crinoidal) that is once in lens chas m weathering. It is 10,700 beneath the top of the Pennsylvanian of the Cumberland. It is south of Caddo creek. The fauna here is again a small one. We got 3 species of Productus and a few others there. See the list. Placke came on a sleeping rattlesnake about 3 feet long. I smoked the firmed him and extracted. The next collecting ground was a half-mile north- north of the previous one. Here is a vertical lime- stone 10 foot thick, followed below by 6 feet of sandstone and then by 30 feet of blue shales. It is 2200 feet