348 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL AiUSEUM vol.90 



1870 



Prof. Charles F. Himes presented a collection of bones from Carlisle 

 bone cave, Pennsylvania. Dr. Carl Hermann Berendt donated a fos- 

 sil fish from Mexico. Dr. J. A. Fitzgerald presented teeth from Indian 

 Territory (Oklahoma). Horatio N. Pease presented a tooth of fossil 

 cetacean from Gay Head, Mass., and Andrew Sherwood presented 

 Devonian fish remains from Pennsylvania. 



1871 



A cast of the giant sloth Megatherkmi cunisri from South America 

 was presented by Prof. Henry A. Ward. Casts of the gigantic turtle 

 Colossochelys atlas and of a South American glyptodont {Sckistopleu- 

 i-UTii typus) were purchased. The last mentioned is still on exhibition ; 

 the others have been discarded. George H. Lewis presented an incom- 

 plete turtle from Atlantic City, Montana Territory. 



1872 



One box of fossil bones from Sonora, Mexico, was presented by Gen. 

 James H. Carleton. A model of the Irish elk was placed on deposit 

 by Waterhouse Hawkins. A tooth of Ptychodus was presented by 

 G. H. Kalteyer. 



1873 



The Canterbury Museum at Christ Church, New Zealand, through 

 its director, Julius Haast, presented a collection of moa bones, among 

 which were skeletons f»f Dinonih giganteus and Palapteryx elephan- 

 topus and leg bones of Dinoimis gracilis^ D. casuarkis, and D. dull' 

 for?}iis. 



1874. 



A cast of the skull of Odontopteryir foliapica was presented by 

 Bryce ]M. AVright. From the Wasatch and Miocene of New Mexico, an 

 important collection of fossils was transferred by the War Depart- 

 ment. These specimens were collected by H. C. Yarrow and E. D. Cope 

 of the United States Geographical Survey West of the One-hundredth 

 Meridian in charge of Lt. George M. Wheeler. The collections were 

 described by Cope in the report of that expedition, vol. 4, 1877. The 

 Heidelberg University Museum, through Professor Pagenstecher, pre- 

 sented a skeleton of Halitherium schinzi 



Fossil bones from Florida were presented by N. B. Moore. L. G. 

 Yates presented a cast of the teeth of a mastodon from Solano County, 

 Calif. (Hay. O. P., Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 322b, p. li, 

 1927) . 



