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e/^sw (Gidley, J. W., Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., vol. 34, pp. 681-683, 

 1908) were the outstanding specimens. 



A fossil tui'tle from the Niobrara (Upper Cretaceous) of Kansas 

 was purchased from Charles H. Sternberg. It was subsequently de- 

 scribed by O. P. Hay as the type of To.vochelys stenopora (Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 36, p. 191, 1909). 



A lower jaw of Eqwus occldeiitaJis from the Pleistocene of Nevada 

 was presented by C. A. Gaby. A natural cast of a chimaeroid egg 

 case collected by N. H. Darton from the Montana, Upper Cretaceous 

 of Wyoming, was transferred by the United States Geological Sui-- 

 vey. Five fossil fishes from Ceara, Brazil, were presented by David 

 Starr Jordan. A cast of the skull of Zeuglodon hydrarchus 

 [ = Zygorhiza kochii] was received in exchange with Teyler's Mu- 

 seum, Haarlem, Netherlands. 



The types of Delphlnodon divklum (True, F. W., Journ. xicad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 15, pp. 165-194, 1912) and PsepliopKovm 

 calvertensis (Palmer, William, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol, 36, pp. 369- 

 373, 1909) and other Miocene vertebrates from the Calvert formation 

 of the Chesapeake Bay region were collected and presented by 

 William Palmer. 



1909 



A collection of 300 specimens from the Fort Union (Paleocene) 

 of Sweet Grass County, Mont., containing many new and little-known 

 mammalian forms and the type of Hoplochelys caelata (Hay, O. P., 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 35, pp. 163-164, 1908), was made for 

 the Museum by A. C. Silberling. A woolly rhinoceros skull from the 

 Pleistocene of Russia was purchased from E. Pfizenmayer. Two ac- 

 cessions comprising a very considerable and interesting series of Creta- 

 cean remains from the Miocene of Calvert Cliffs, Calvert County, Md., 

 were presented by Frederick W. True. 



The type specimen of Lissoprion fcrnerl (Hay, O. P., Science, new 

 ser., vol. 26, pp. 22-24, 1907) from the Upper Carboniferous of Idaho 

 was presented by W. F. Ferrier. A partial skeleton of Glyptodc/ii 

 petaliferus from the Pliocene of Texas was presented by (). S. Shelton 

 (Hay, O. P., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 51, p. 107, 1916). 



1910 



The Fort Union collections from Montana were augmented by 70 

 additional specimens, collected by James W. Gidley and A. C. Silber- 

 ling, working under the auspices of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey. A further contribution was made by the Geological Survey in 

 a small collectioii of turtles made by James W. Gidley and James H. 



