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Mus., vol, 30, pp. 203-233, 1906) and specimens of Amyda aequa (Hay, 

 O. P., Carnegie Inst. Wasliington Publ. 75, pp. 517-519, 1908) from 

 the Eocene, Bridger formation of Wyoming. These were transferred 

 by the United States Geological Survey. 



A musk-ox skull from the Pleistocene of Yukon Territory was pre- 

 sented by J. B. Terrell through Dr. W. H. Osgood, who subsequently 

 described it as the type of Symhos terreUi (Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 

 vol. 48, pp. 173-183," 1905). 



A second musk-ox skull {Gldleya zuniensis) from the Pleistocene 

 of New Mexico was presented by the Department of the Interior. It 

 was originally described by Dr. J. W. Gidley as Lwps (Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 30, pp. 165-167, 1906) . 



1907 



Plaster casts of the skeleton of Pareiasawms hfiini and other rep- 

 tilian skulls, all from the Karoo Beds of South Africa, were received 

 in exchange from the British Museum of Natural History. A speci- 

 men of Lepisosteus simplex from near Cody, Wyo., was presented by 

 Jeremiah Ahern. The type of Echmatemys rlvalis (Hay, O. P., Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35* pp. 164-166, 1908) from Wasatch, Eocene of 

 Wyoming was transferred by the United States Geological Survey. 



1908 



An important collection of 99 United States and South American 

 vertebrate specimens was received in exchange with the American 

 Museum of Natural History in settlement of a claim for certain Gov- 

 ernment-owned specimens that were retained in the Cope collection 

 when it went to that institution. This collection contained many rare 

 species, including the type mounted skeleton of Hoplophoneiu'< robus- 

 tus (Adams, G. I., Amer. Nat., vol. 30, p. 49, 1896) from the Oligo- 

 cene of South Dakota, and a skull and jaws of Uinfafheriuin tnirahile 

 from the Washakie (Eocene) of Wyoming. 



The Hambach collection, assembled by the late Prof. Gustav 

 Hambach, was presented by Frank Springer. Although consisting 

 primarily of invertebrate fossils it also contained a considerable 

 number of Paleozoic fish remains, some reptiles and mammals from 

 this country and abroad, as well as a few from the Sliumard collec- 

 tion, which Professor Hambach had previously acquired. 



A collection of Pleistocene mammals made by Charles W. Gil- 

 more for the Smithsonian Institution in Alaska in 1907 (Gilmore, 

 C. W., Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol 51, pp. 1-38, 1908) ; skulls of Bison 

 erassicomis (Hay, O. P., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 46, pp. 179-183, 

 1914) ; and a musk-ox skull the type of a new species Ovihos yukon- 



