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Tinosaw'us lepidus Marsh, T. steriodon Marsh, Oreosaw^us gracilis 

 Marsh, O. lentus Marsh, O. microdus Marsh, 0. minutus Marsh, O. 

 vagans Marsh, Gtemogenys antiquus Gilmore, received in exchange 

 with the Peabody Museum of Natural History, This addition makes 

 the United States National Museum preeminent in North American 

 fossil Sauria. Of the 69 described species, 54 of the original types are 

 now in the national collections. 



The fossil materials resulting from the field expedition to central 

 Utah contributed important specimens to both the mammalian and 

 reptilian collections. They include additional specimens of Paleocene 

 mammals with several forms new to the fauna ; considerable portions 

 of two skulls and other ceratopsian materials; and 22 lizard speci- 

 mens {Polyglypha)>odon) ^ 8 of which are good portions of articulated 

 skeletons. 



A collection of 123 fossil fish specimens was received by transfer 

 from the War Department. Noteworthy were many fine examples 

 from the Solenhofen deposits of Bavaria. 



Through exchange with the University of Kansas there came a com- 

 posite skeleton of the Pliocene amphibian Plioamhystoma kansensis; 

 and with the Peabody Museum of Natural History a mounted skeleton 

 of Stenomylus hitchcocki, skull and lower jaws of Platygonus com- 

 ■pressus, and a skull of Nimraviis. 



The cetacean part of the collection was enriched by a cetothere and 

 Eurhinodelphis skulls presented by Drs. E. Kellogg and W. F. Foshag; 

 a vertebral series of PriscodelpMnus presented by Dr. A, R. Barwick; 

 and a cetacean skull presented by Arlton Murray, all from the Calvert 

 formation of Maryland. 



The type of DelpMnus calvertemis (Harlan, Richard, Proc. Nat. 

 Inst., vol. 2, pp. 195-196, 1842) originally belonging to the National 

 Institute but lent to Prof. Louis Agassiz prior to 1852, was returned 

 to the National Museum collections by the Musemn of Comparative 

 Zoology. 



The types of Paralhula tnarylandica and P. dorisiae (Blake, S. F., 

 Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 30, pp. 206-209, 1940) were pre- 

 sented by S. F. Blake; the type of AnomoediLs latidcns 7narylandi€us 

 (Berry, C. T., Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 22, p. 746, 1939) from the Cre- 

 taceous of Maryland, was presented by Dr. Charles T. Berry. 



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