April 13 Tuesday – Sam and Joe Twichell went to Brooklyn to stay at the home of Dean Sage. On the Hartford to New Haven leg to NYC:

“Prof. Marsh of Y.C. [Yale College] was by chance our company, and entertained us rarely by some account of his late Bone Hunting Expedition to the Bad lands and of similar previous experiences” [Yale, Twichell’s diaries 87, copy at MTP]. Note: Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) was the chair of Yale’s paleontology department, the first to hold such a position.

Nine-tenths of an inch of rain fell on the NYC area [NOAA.gov].