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Loew, E. A., Oxford, England. Continuation of investigations upon ancient 

 Latin minuscule writing. (For previous reports see Year Books Nos. 

 9-14.) 



During the fall and winter months Dr. Loew saw through the 

 press his transcript of the Bobbio Missal, reference to which was 

 made in his previous report. The volume will be ready for publica- 

 tion as soon as the introduction is printed ; but it is necessary to make 

 another thorough examination of the original and of similar manu- 

 scripts which may be preserved in the Bibliotheque Nationale. The 

 volume of plates which accompanies the volume of text will probably 

 not see hght before the war is over, as the Italian printer depends for 

 his material upon a German firm. 



Last June Professor Rand and Dr. Loew discovered the oldest 

 extant manuscript of the letters of Pliny the Younger, the possession 

 of J. P. Morgan, and at the December meeting of the Philological and 

 Archeological Association held at Princeton they read a joint paper on 

 this manuscript. The manuscript has a double claim on the interest 

 of classical scholars. It is three centuries older than the oldest manu- 

 script heretofore used in an edition of Phny; secondly, it is a member 

 of the best class and, as Professor Rand ingeniously proves, the very 

 manuscript which was used by Aldus in his edition of Pliny's letters, 

 and which has been lost ever since. It is planned to publish a small 

 volume containing the results of their study of the manuscript. 



During the winter and spring Dr. Loew gave lectures before the 

 universities of Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Michigan, North Carolina, 

 and South Carohna. 



PALEONTOLOGY. 



Case, E. C, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Study of the 

 vertebrate fauna and paleogeography of North America in the Permian 

 period, with especial reference to world relations. (For previous reports 

 see Year Books Nos, 2, 4, 8-14.) 



During the summer of 1916 Mr. Case was occupied in following 

 the boundary hne between the Permian and Pennsylvanian beds in 

 Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and comparing the Red Beds of these 

 States with those of New Mexico and the Trans-Pecos region of 

 Texas. The eastern border line was followed through Kansas and 

 Oklahoma and south in Texas as far as San Angelo. In this part of 

 the work careful observations were taken of the structure and material 

 of the formations in preparation for an attempt to interpret the 

 paleogeography of the periods in which they were deposited with 

 especial reference to the vertebrate life. In addition to the material 

 gathered on this phase of the work it was determined that vertebrate 

 fossils occur much farther east than has previously been reported. 



