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A small collection of Oligocene vertebrates, including Testudo 

 oiveni, type of Testvdo (ndhertsoni^ Archaeotherium mortoni^ Rhinoc- 

 eros sp., and Oreodon Gulbertsonl (Owen's Report of the Geological 

 Survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, 1852) was deposited by 

 Indiana State University. 



A small collection of tortoise and bird bones from Mascarene Islands 

 was received in exchange with the Museum of Cambridge University, 

 Cambridge, England. A skull of Thoracosaurus neocesariensk from 

 the Cretaceous, Aquia Creek, Va., was presented by Nelson C. Page. 



18S9 



A plaster cast of the skeleton of Phenacodus priTtiaevus was pur- 

 chased from E. D. Cope ; a collection of the fossil fish Leueisous tuTne7i 

 from the Miocene of Esmeralda County, Nev., was transferred by the 

 United States Geological Survey (Lucas, F. A., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 23, pp. 333-^34, 1900). 



1891 



A partial skull of Bison latifrons from the Pleistocene of the Willa- 

 lacoochee River, Fla., was presented by Gen. fj. W. Colby (Hay, O. P., 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, p. 767, 1898). 



1892 



A most important accession was a collection of 380 prepared speci- 

 mens, a second consignment from the Marsh collection, transferred by 

 the United States Geological Survey. It contained three ceratopsian 

 skulls, including the type of Tnceratops elatus (Marsh, O. C, Amer. 

 Journ. Sci., vol. 42, p. 265, 1891), from the Lance, Upper Cretaceous, 

 of Wyoming; a series of 10 titanothere skulls representing several 

 genera from the Oligocene of Nebraska and South Dakota ; skulls and 

 other remains of Teleroceras fossiger from the Pliocene of Long Island, 

 Kans. ; and a few other Tertiary fossils and some rare casts. 



A collection of mammalian fossils from the estate of Joseph Leidy 

 was transmitted as a gift by the United States Geological Survey. 



189S 



A small collection of mammalian specimens collected by Frank 

 Burns from the Miocene of Maryland and Virginia was transmitted 

 by the United States Geological Survey. 



189A 

 The most important accession was a collection of Basilosmirus ce- 

 toides specimens made for the Smithsonian Institution by Charles 

 Schuchert from the Jackson, Upper Eocene, of Choctaw County, Ala. : 



