Sunday, March 16, 1919, Mineral Wells. Slept at 6:15 and 7 had breakfast with Alex. McCoy and D.L. Freese. At 7:30 we hailed a trolley for Fort Worth and then by train for Mineral Wells where we arrived at 11:30 A.M., stopping at Hotel Cameron at Mineral Wells. The day is bright and sunny and spring like. Had an interesting ride down over the Custerum and now we are in the Shawn. The country here in the east is not of good farm land, rather it is a ranch county and of cattle raising. Had dinner at Dr. Plummers home. Then to his office to see the Marble Falls collection and of the Smithson collection by Dr. Moore. It's a large collection mostly dark li., and in general the specimens are not good. Some of the specim are clear Pennsylvanian but in general it is a strange lot of fossils that in my area remind of the Upper Cretaceous. One sees no characteristic Choton species, no Houstoni's, and none of the characteristic Forestelli's. All in all it's rather of Pennsylvanian time. From the Lower Bend shale Moore had but few fossils as more of these are clearly indicative of age. He has Leiordynchus cantmifundabing, Leda bellistriata