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able portion of the skeleton of a mastodon from the Pleistocene of 

 Winona Lake, Ind., was presented by Frank L, Clark. 



A cast of the type skeleton of Diati^jma steinii was presented by the 

 American Mnsenm of Natural History. 



1920 



A valuable acquisition was a collection of 78 specimens placed on 

 deposit by the Maryland Geological Survey of which 74 are either type 

 or figured specimens, 13 being original types. These specimens come 

 from the Pleistocene, Miocene, Eocene, and Cretaceous of Maryland. 



A collection of 35 specimens from a cave near Bulverde, Bexar 

 County, Tex., was presented by O. P. Hay (Hay, O. P, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 129, 1921). A collection of 60 specimens from 

 the Pleistocene, Cavetown, Md., was presented by Phillips Academy 

 (Hay, O. P., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 58, p. 97, 1921). A small cof- 

 lection consisting chiefly of horse and camel remains from Washtucna 

 Lake, Wash., collected by Dr. George M. Sternberg in 1877, was pre- 

 sented by Mrs. George M. Sternberg (Hay, O. P., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vol. 59, pp. 607-608, 1922). 



A beautiful articulated skeleton of Stenoniylus hitchcocki from the 

 Miocene of Nebraska was received in exchange with the Carnegie 

 Museum. A humerus, the type of JoMni, laeillsi (Sellards, E. H., 8th 

 Ann. Kep. Florida Geol. Surv., p. 146, 1916), from the Pleistocene of 

 Florida, was deposited by the Florida Geological Survey. Two sets 

 of moa leg bones and one lot of crop stones from New Zealand were 

 received in exchange with the Public School of Lake Bathhurst, Aus- 

 tralia. A skull and two vertebrae, the type of Megaptera miocaena 

 (Kellogg, R., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 61, pp. 1-16, 1922), from the 

 Miocene, Lompoc formation of California, were transferred by the 

 LTnited States Geological Survey. A plaster model restoration of 

 Mastodon mnericanus by Charles R. Knight was purchased. 



The type skull of Elephas horeus from Mount Healthy, Hamilton 

 County, Ohio, was purchased (Hay, O. P., Observations on some 

 extinct elephants, p. 5, June 12, 1922; privately published). 



A small collection of Pleistocene vertebrate fossils was made by 

 James W. Gidley near Renick, Greenbrier County, W. Va. (Gidley, 

 J. W., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 57, p. 669, 1920). 



1921 



An important collection of more than 100 specimens representing 

 a new Pliocene fauna of 30 or more species was made by James W. 

 Gidley and Kirk Bryan in the San Pedro Valley, Ariz. Among the 

 more striking new forms were two described by Gidley (U. S. Geol. 

 Surv. Prof. Pap. 140-B, 1926), Stegomustodon arizonae and Glypto- 



