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ensis, purchased from Charles H. Sternberg (Gihnore, C. W., Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 56, pp. 113-132, pis. 29-37, 1919). 



The type skull and lower jaws of Equus lambei from the Pleisto- 

 cene of Gold Kun Creek, Yukon Territory (Hay, O. P., Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 53, pp. 435-443, 1917), and a partial skull of Syiribos 

 eavifrons from the Pleistocene of Indiana were purchased. 



1918 



A collection made by Dr. Jolm B. B^eside, Jr. (1916), from the 

 Paleocene and Upper Cretaceous of the San Juan Basin of New Mexico 

 was transferred by the United States Geological Survey. This is the 

 most important contribution from this source of recent years, there 

 being 50 identifiable turtle specimens, many of them complete, 16 of 

 which were described as new species (Gilmore, C. W., U. S. Geol. Surv. 

 Prof. Pap. 119, pp. 1-68, 1920). 



The type specimen of Ter^irepene whitneyi from the Pleistocene of 

 Texas was presented by Prof. F. H. Whitney (Hay, O. P., Univ. Texas 

 Bull. 71, pp. 1-24, 1917). The type of Agomphus aldbaTriensis (Gil- 

 more, C. W., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 56, pp. 123-125, 1919) from 

 the Cretaceous of Georgia was presented by the Florida Geological 

 Survey. 



Additional remains of Pleistocene mammals from Siberia were pre- 

 sented by Jolm Koren. These supplement the collection received from 

 the Koren Expedition of 1914-15. 



A collection of 76 fish scales from the Cretaceous of North America 

 was transferred by the United States Geological Survey (Cockerell, 

 T. D. A., U. S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap. 120, pp. 165-188, 1919). 



A small collection of cetacean remains, including the type of Eu- 

 rhinodelphis hossl (Kellogg, R., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, pp. 

 1-40, 1925) , was made for the Museum by Norman H. Boss. 



1919 



The most important accession of this year was that received as a 

 deposit from the Florida Geological Survey, consisting of 24 type 

 specimens from the Miocene and Pleistocene of Florida. 



A skull and lower jaws of Monocloniics nasicornis from the Belly 

 River, Upper Cretaceous, of Alberta; a skull and partial skeleton of 

 Diplocaulus eopei from the Permian of Texas ; and a partly articulated 

 skeleton of Tylosaurus pr<yriger and other mosasaurian specimens 

 from the Niobrara formation, Upper Cretaceous of Kansas, were pur- 

 chased from Charles H. Sternberg. 



A partial skeleton including a well-preserved skull of a long-beaked 

 porpoise from the Calvert, Miocene, of Chesapeake Bay, Md., was col- 

 lected for the Museum by William Palmer and N. H. Boss. A consider- 



