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beach sands by the raindrops and hailstones of storms of this 

 remote period. 



Mr. Floyd Markham, of Chicago, and Messrs. J. Mann and J. Lee, 

 of Oak Lawn, Illinois, presented twenty-one fossils which they 

 collected in recently discovered beds in Blue Island. These speci- 

 mens include new species and specimens which disclose unknown or 

 obscurely known features of other species. Several of them have 

 already been described in Museum publications. Messrs. A. G. 

 and Raymond B. Becker, of Clermont, Iowa, presented a collection 

 of eighty-one fossils from Florida. 



Additions to the collection of vertebrate fossils resulted from 

 gifts, exchanges, and collecting by individuals of the staff. One 

 skull each of the large Cretaceous dinosaurs, Anchioceratops and 

 Edmontosaurus, were received by exchange with the Royal Ontario 

 Museum of Toronto, Canada, in return for a miscellaneous collection 

 of South American fossils. 



A specimen of the swimming reptile, Tylosaurus, was presented 

 by Mr. G. M. Barber, of Hot Springs, Arkansas. A specimen of 

 Elephas boreus, from Alaska, was the gift of Mr. George W. Robbins, 

 of Valdez, Alaska. Mr. Henry Field, of Chicago, presented vertebra, 

 jaws, and teeth of Ichthyosaurus, from England. 



A collection of eleven specimens of fossil mammals and reptiles 

 from South America was contributed by the Standard Oil Company 

 of New Jersey. A skull of Caenopus and half a skeleton of Metamy- 

 nodon were collected in South Dakota by Associate Curator Riggs. 

 The Straus West African Expedition of the Department of Zoology 

 collected five specimens of African lavas. 



An iron ore from the Fiji Islands, collected by the Cornelius 

 Crane Pacific Expedition, was received, as well as a bentonite (used 

 as a cosmetic by the Arabs) collected by the Field Museum Anthro- 

 pological Expedition to the Near East. 



Mr. Roy collected, on two field trips, eighty-three fossil inverte- 

 brates and plants of Nebraska and Pennsylvania. Mr. Phil C. Orr 

 collected sixty-two specimens of cave products and fossils from the 

 cave region of Kentucky. 



cataloguing, inventorying, and labeling — GEOLOGY 



New entries recorded in the Department catalogues, now com- 

 prising twenty-six volumes, numbered 1,458. These, added to pre- 

 vious entries, give a total of 193,278. As copy for several thousand 

 labels already had been sent to the Division of Printing, preparation 



