Douglass's correspondence took on a more professional tone as he began to have contact with paleontologist S. A. Miller, Cincinnati, Ohio, who wrote on 26 April "Three species of crinoids you sent me are new. The drawings are made and descriptions are written. Two species bear your name and they will appear in Bulletin No. 10 of the Illinois Survey . . . . printed in June or July." Other letters from Miller and geologists and botanists are included. Luther Foster, a friend from Montana who obtained a position at Utah State Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan, Utah, encouraged Douglass to look for a job there.