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A small collection of Pleistocene animal remains from Saltville, 

 Smyth County, Va., was presented by H. D. Mount (Hay, O. P., 

 Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 322, pp. 145-352, 1923). 



Collecting in the local Miocene field in the cliffs along Chesapeake 

 Bay by William Palmer and Norman H. Boss yielded a complete skull 

 and lower jaws with much of the articulated skeleton of the long- 

 beaked porpoise Eurhirwdelphis ho8si, a beautifully preserved short- 

 beaked porpoise skull {Kentriodon pernix), and many parts of these 

 same animals. 



Other noteworthy accessions for this year were a well-preserved 

 slaill of Bison allenl with the horn sheaths and five articulated cervical 

 vertebrae from the Pleistocene of Alaska, purchased (Hay, O. P.. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 46, pp. 183-189, 1913) ; the type of Crosso- 

 tfZos armulatiis, a Permian amphibian from Oklahoma, received in 

 exchange with Dr. E. C. Case (2d Ann. Rep. Geol. and Nat. Hist. 

 Terr. Oklahoma, p. 15, 1902) ; and teeth and jaw fragments of the type 

 of Titanoides p7'iiiiaevus from the Fort Union of North Dakota, re- 

 ceived by transfer from the United States Department of Agriculture 

 through Vernon Bailey (Gidley, J. W., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 52, 

 pp. 431^35, 1917). 



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A composite skeleton of Aenocyondirus and three skulls and jaAvs of 

 the same from the famous Rancho La Brea, Pleistocene asphalt de- 

 posits, California, were received in exchange with the University of 

 Cali f ornia. A large mosasaur skeleton, consisting of the skull, jaws, 50 

 vertebrae, and portions of the paddles from the Bearpaw formation, 

 Upper Cretaceous of Montana, was purchased from Guy L. Wait. 

 A remarkably well-preserved skull of the rare Desmostylus hespe-t^us 

 from the Miocene of Oregon was purchased (Hay, O. P., Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 49, pp. 381-397, 1915) . A final consignment of Pleisto- 

 cene mammals from the "Cumberland Cave," consisting of 15 skulls, 

 was received. A partial skeleton of a very large Mastodon anieri- 

 canu^ from the Pleistocene of Indiana was presented by W. D. 

 Pattison, with permission to unearth the remaining parts. The type 

 slmll of Nothrothe7'iunv texanmii from the Pleistocene of Texas was 

 received in exchange with Baylor University (Hay, O. P., Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 51, p. 116, 1917) . 



A collection of 30 dermal plates of armored dinosaurs from the 

 Lance, Upper Cretaceous, of Wyoming was presented by Dr. G. R. 

 Wieland (Wieland, G. R., Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 31, pp. 112- 

 124, 1911). A small collection of Pleistocene manmiials from the 

 vicinity of Denver, Colo., was presented by Prof. George L. Cannon 

 (Hay,'0. P., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 59, pp. 599-603, 1922). 



