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Two articulated caudal series and other bones of Proch&niosaunis ; 

 two incomplete specimens of Lepfoceratops; and an incomplete but 

 adult skull of Brachyceratops (Gilmore, C. W., Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 87, pp. 1-18, 1939), including skeletal parts, are worthy 

 of special mention. Besides collecting the usual run of mamalian 

 specimens from the Wasatch of the Big Horn Basin, this party 

 secured a complete articulated skeleton of Coryphodon. 



A complete articulated skeleton of Scarrittia canquelensw from 

 the Tertiary of Argentina was purchased from the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. A skull and lower jaws of a large phyto- 

 saurian reptile from the Triassic of Arizona presented by Merl V. 

 Walker. A skeleton of Scelklodon capeUina from South America 

 was received in exchange with the Field Museum of Natural History. 

 A skull of Glyptoscmi'us giganteus (Gilmore, C. W., Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 86, pp. 16-21, fig. 5, 1938) from the Oligocene of Wyo- 

 ming was purchased from George F. Sternberg. The type of Sula 

 avita from the Miocene of Chesapeake Bay, Md. (Wetmore, A., 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 85, pp. 22-24, 1938) ; the type of Peri- 

 tresius virginianus from the Miocene of Virginia (Berry, C. T., and 

 Lynn, W. G., Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 183-187, 

 1936) ; the type of Pelycorhnmplius pei'tortus from the Miocene of 

 Maryland? (Cope, E. D., Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 34, p. 137, 

 1895) ; the type of Pre potherium ve/nezuelanmn (Collins, R. L., Johns 

 Hopkins Univ. Stud, in Geol., No. 11, pp. 235-244, 1934) from 

 Venezuela, South America, were all deposited by Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



A small collection of fossil fishes from the Devonian of Colorado 

 was transferred by the United States Geological Survey. Another 

 small collection of primitive Downtonian fishes from Spitsbergen 

 was received as a gift from the Paleontologisk Museum, Oslo, 

 Norway. 



1937 



The chief accession of this year was a collection of mammalian 

 fossils made by the Smithsonian field party under the direction of 

 Dr. C. Lewis Gazin in Arizona and New Mexico. About 600 identi- 

 fiable specimens were collected from the Puerco, Torrejon, Wasatch, 

 and Pliocene. 



A composite skeleton of the giant ground sloth Paramylodmi har- 

 Imii from the Rancho La Brea Pleistocene, California, was received 

 in exchange with the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, 

 Science and Art. 



A mounted skeleton of Merycodus iwcatus from the Miocene of 

 Montana was purchased from Phil C. Orr. 



