32 pagesThe journal is Dr. Miller's account of the
University of California field expedition into
the John Day Basin of Central Oregon in 1899.
This expedition, as well as many that followed
from that institution, was led by Dr. John C.
Merriam. It began a long association of the
University of California with that area of Oregon,
an association which still continues. Although
the events of this journal occurred over
seventy years ago, they by no means represent
the first investigation of the area, for these beds
were already famous when Miller first saw
them. Condon had first seen them forty years
previously, and such well known paleontologists
as Marsh and Cope among many others
had collected there. It was not until the work
of Merriam and his students from the University
of California began that any real understanding
of the geology of the area or the sequence
of the faunas present was developed
