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tional cetacean materials from the Sooke formation of British Colum- 

 bia were presented by Ira E. Cornwall. Type specimen of Bison syl- 

 vestris (Hay, O. P., Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., vol. 48, p. 515, 1915) from 

 Huron County, Ohio, and a small collection of Pleistocene fossils from 

 Vero, Fla., were presented by Oliver P. Hay. A well-preserved skull of 

 Stenosaums hoUensis from Holtzmaden, Germany, was received in ex- 

 change with Ward's Natm'al Science Establislmient. A collection of 

 five turtles from the Upper Cretaceous of New Mexico was purchased 

 from Charles H. Sternberg. A plaster cast of the skull of Protocera- 

 tops was received in exchange with the American Museum of Natural 

 Histoi-y. 



1927 



An articulated skeleton of Portheus molossus^ three skeletons of 

 Protostega gigas, and two partial skeletons of Platecarpus coryphaeus, 

 all from the Niobrara, Upper Cretaceous, of Kansas, were purchased 

 from George F. Sternberg. A collection of Pleistocene mammals from 

 Sarasota, Zolfo Springs, and Venice, Fla., was assembled by James W. 

 Gidley. It also includes a partial skeleton of EUphas presented by 

 the Venice Co. 



The type of Hypsognathus fenneri (Gilmore, C. W., Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 73, art. 7, pp. 1-8, pis. 1-3, 1928) from the Triassic of New 

 Jersey, was presented by Dr. C. N. Fenner. Bones of Hesperornis and 

 Ichthyornis from the Niobrara, Upper Cretaceous, of Kansas, were 

 presented by George F. Sternberg. A lower jaw, the type of Martes 

 kinseyi (Gidley, J. W., Journ. Mamm., vol. 8, pp. 239-242, 1927) from 

 the Miocene of Montana, was presented by C. A. Kinsey. Skulls of 

 Equus alashae from the Pleistocene of Alaska were transferred by 

 the United States Geological Survey. A plaster cast of the lower 

 jaw of Trilophodon angustidens, the original of which is in the Lyon 

 Museum, France, was received in exchange with the American Musemn 

 of Natural History. 



1928 



A further collection of Pleistocene vertebrates from Melbourne and 

 New Smyrna, Fla., was made by James W. Gidley. A nearly 

 complete shell of Trachemys sculpta (Gilmore, C. W., Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., vol. 77, art. 10, pp. 1-8, pis. 1-3, 1930) was one of the 

 specimens secured. 



A skeleton of Clidastes from the Niobrara, Upper Cretaceous, of 

 Kansas and a partial skeleton of Parahippus from the Miocene of 

 Wyoming were purchased from George F. Sternberg. 



A small collection of fossil footprints from the Hermit and Supai 

 formations of the Grand Canyon, Ariz., was made by Charles W. 



