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by specimens from the Appalachian region; Paleozoic by specimens 

 from Great Britain, France, and the coal fields of Ohio, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Mazon Creek, 111. It contains many types and figured 

 specimens. 



The type specimen of the physeteroid whale {Ontocetm oxymyc- 

 tem^) from Santa Barbara, Calif., was presented by Mrs. Charles 

 O. Roe (Kellogg, R., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 27, pp. 1-8, 

 1926). 



1924 



A notable accession was a skeleton of Diplodocus longus collected 

 for the Museum from the Jurassic, Dinosaur National Monument, 

 Utah. This specimen is now mounted and on exhibition (Gilmore, 

 C. W., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 81, art. 18, pp. 1-21, pis. 1-6, 

 1932). 



Composite skeletons of fSmilodon califoriuews- and Aenocyon dijiis^ 

 suitable for mounting from the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea of 

 California, were received in exchange with the University of Cali- 

 fornia ; a slab of dinosaur tracks from the Triassic shales of Virginia 

 was presented bj' Frank C. Littleton. The types of Trinacro-menmi- 

 henfonmmmi from the Upper Cretaceous of Kansas (Cragin, F. W., 

 Amer. GeoL, vol. 2, pp. 404-407, 1888) and Testudo equico7nes from 

 the Pleistocene of Kansas (Ha3% O. P., Ivans. Univ. Sci. Bull., vol. 

 10, pp. 39-51, pis. 1-3, 1917) were received in exchange Avith Colo- 

 rado College. Further cetacean specimens, a partial skull of Z(^hci- 

 chw (Kellogg, R., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 67, art. 28, pp. 1-18, 

 1926) and one of Eurhinodelphis collected by Norman H. Boss from 

 the Miocene, Calvert formation, Chesapeake Bay, Md. The type of 

 a fossil sculpin from Nevada presented by David Starr Jordan. A 

 small collection of South American mammals was presented hy 

 Brother Ariste Joseph ; a skeleton of Elephas lacking the skull from 

 the Pleistocene of Franklin County, Wash., was transferred by the 

 United States Geological Survey. Cast of the skull of Baluchither- 

 imn and cast of the type of Griphodon peruvianus were received in 

 exchange with American Museum of Natural History, New York. 



1925 



The most important collection of the year was a series of fossil 

 footprints from the Coconino sandstone, Permian of the Grand Can- 

 yon of Arizona, collected by Charles W. Gilmore in coo})eration with 

 the National Park Service (Gilmore, C. W., Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 

 vol. 77, No. 9, pp. 1-41, 1926). This collection was supplemented by 

 a smaller one made by Dr. J. C. Merriam and presented by the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington. Two very large dinosaurian 



