8 February--Oscar J. Craig, president of the University of Montana, wrote of a planned expedition for June and asked Douglass, "What inducement will it be necessary to offer in order to secure your services for the expedition?"

18 February--The first correspondence with Carnegie Museum. J. B. Hatcher, curator, questioned one of Douglass's theories.

21 February--Craig wrote he had reconsidered and would be using university staff because of finances and would not employ Douglass.

12 March--Hatcher described his position with Carnegie Museum, the demands on him, and his hope that soon he would have an assistant curator to relieve him of some of his responsibilities so he could devote more time to other work, especially the dinosaurs. He wrote, "If such a subordinate position would meet your wishes some arrangements might be made for your engagement here."

14 March--Hatcher offered Douglass a position at Carnegie Museum with a salary of $50.00 per month and expenses in the field. "Should you engage with us I should wish you to dispose of your private collection either to this museum or elsewhere, preferably to this of course if we could agree as to its value."

18 March--W. J. Holland, director of Carnegie Museum, approved Douglass's hiring and wrote "Of course as I wrote you in replying to your letter of inquiry, if you come here and we prove mutually agreeable I shall want you to remain permanently and I think it very desirable that your collections should become the property of this institution."

Carnegie Museum was willing that Douglass prepare his memoir (identifications) with drawings by the museum's draftsman, and have it published "without any expense to yourself. . . .

"Given an opportunity of working up and properly publishing your material at the expense of the institution with which you are permanently connected I think it only fair that the collection should become the property of the institution at a merely nominal cost."

14 April--Hatcher refused Douglass's asking price of $500 for his collection and gave him until 1 January 1903 to dispose of his collection and decide whether he would work for the museum.

17 April--Douglass accepted the employment offer at Carnegie Museum.

2 May--Hatcher wrote that Douglass should plan to start work on 1 June. He wanted him to "get out a preliminary description of all new material and then go ahead working with a view to monographing the faunas of the various horizons. I want you to secure this field to yourself."

15 May--Hatcher in reviewing a paper written by Douglass made some alterations and suggestions where he disagreed with Douglass's thesis "that dinosaurs lived contemporaneously with the higher mammals."

June--Letters from Hatcher to Douglass in the field keeping in contact with him and his activities.

17 July--Schedule of Hatcher's trip to three field projects in Wyoming and Montana including Douglass's.

26 September--Instructions from Hatcher for shipping Douglass's collection. He requested a car from Burlington Railroad pick up Douglass's collection at Billings and two other collections in Wyoming.

6 October--Final instructions from Hatcher for shipping collections to Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.