i6j Fi»;m» MtsKfu or Natural History Rkports. Vol. Ill 



s,i' was li. As <»niy wnc tusK was present. 



.c«l in , i.i^i. r ami llic whole farcfuUy a ^ 'f^! 



..;. . . ^' ^^ »s then nv'>i"?«<' <HM>n a wcU-coi. ;;.. :c«i 



\ia<ir An - en of c^; al interest has thus 



Ik-. .\nother imr»r»rtant preparation was that of a skeleton 



of the Miocene camel (O .lus louppt's) the material for which 



was t u- Museum PaleontoloRical Expe<lition of 190S in 



N« Ily means of the restoration of a few V>ones a complete 



^ obtained. This skeleton stands over six feet in height 



an.i I to a striking degree the cliaracters of the camel family. 



Only <ii. 'ilier complete skeleton of the form is know^n A nearly 



compl* f' <^«lett>n of the Miocene wolven"« l./ur.. \.>n was chiseled 



from crix and mounted in slab I Is of Archa' 



other ium, one of which was collected in South Dakota in 1898 and 



the other in Nebraska in iqo.s. were also cleaned from matrix and 



moun' rhese skulls were unusually well preser\*ed and one may 



be a new species. A fore leg of Ilypohipptis obtained in Nebraska 



in 1908 and illustrating an interestir •> in the evolution of the 



' "^ ' t^ mounted. Two skulls 01 i;;l two-homed rhinoceros or 



..... rium from Nebraska, a skull of Oligohutiis from the same 



y and a skull and fore and hind legs of the remarkable f rrri 



■us were also prepared and mounted. Two cases of .«> 



trays were provided in addition to those already employed for storage 



of vertebrate fossils and were nearly filled with cleaned and identified 



specimens. A similar case of trays has also been provided for the 



invertebrate fossils which will Ik- used for specimens awaiting identifi- 



• their removal to the exhibition or the study Con- 



' made in organizing the study von 



'i wi,.-, .lij.i .-imi I . i.ii- 'iiii. minerals, a large part of the i»j - v .;..» n« 



hnvin< ^. • -i . 1. .n. ,! ur.tipcd. labeled, and distributed. To tin 



ums 179 prints have been added during 

 the year, making the total numl>er 2.37a. Books, pamphlets, and 

 maps to the number of 493 have been added to the Department lib- 

 ra: -,ing the total number in the librar>' 6.042. and some bindiTij: 

 and repairing of books and rearrangement of shelf series in this 



CO* 



.'jgy installed dunng i:n \Lar a striking 

 '^ in the central r *"*^^^ >( the Museum. 



.^r .iirs have l>een , , 1 though several 

 impor .s and of birds are well under way 



