John Jay DuBois ’67, M.A. ’72
Oscar Harger, ’68
George M. Keasbey, ’71 S
George G. Lobdell, Jr., ’71 S.
Alfred Bishop Mason, ’71, M.A. ’74
Frederick Mead, ’71, M.A. ’74
Joseph French Page, ’71.
Theodore Gordon Peck, ’71, M.A. ’93
John F. Quigley, ’71 S
Harry D. Ziegler, ’71 S
Other Yale College Scientific Expeditions: 1870 | 1872 | 1873
The
second Yale College Scientific Expedition proceeded immediately to Fort
Wallace, Kansas, in hopes of finding more of the pterosaur that had
been recovered the previous year
in the Cretaceous chalk of the Smoky Hill River region. They were not
disappointed. Setting out on July 2, with 5 army wagons and the usual
army escort, O.C. Marsh
began retracing his steps almost immediately on setting up camp. They
not only recovered more of the same specimen, but several others.
After a month, the party headed to Denver for a short rest. From there
they went to Cheyenne and then to Fort Bridger, reaching there on
August 22. They set out on a 6-week exploration of the Green River
Basin, collecting 11 boxes of material, including the type specimens of
Orohippus uintanus and O. pumilis.
After a break in Salt Lake City, the party moved on to the John Day
Basin in Oregon, reaching Canyon City, Oregon, on October 17. Escorted
by soldiers from Fort Harney and guided by Rev. Thomas Condon, they
spent only a couple of weeks there before winter brought their
collecting to a halt.
The party split up after reaching Portland, Oregon. Some accompanied
Marsh by steamer to San Francisco, while a smaller group started back
overland. In San Francisco, the group split up again, some returning by
rail and others joining Marsh returning via Panama by ship. Marsh and
his small entourage arrived back in New Haven on January 14, 1872.
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