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The fossil rich land Florissant is situated just south of Hill's home, beside the large petrified base of a Sequoia stump, also known currently as "The Big Stump". Hill sold a large collection of fossils to the Princeton Scientific Expedition of 1877. In turn, Leo Lesquereux's 1883 monograph described and named many new specimens obtained by Samuel H. Scudder, and the Princeton Scientific Expedition of 1877 which purchased fossils from Hill. Apparently the expedition of Princeton university students encouraged Charlotte and Adam Hill to invest further into the trade of fossils as a side business. This is evident due to the fact that the 1800 consensus showed that Adam became a specimen collector after the Princeton Scientific Expedition of 1877.