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Gilmore (Gilmore, C. W., Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol, 80, No. 8, 

 pp. 7-10, 1928). Types of four species of extinct birds from the 

 Oligocene of Colorado were deposited by the Colorado Museum of 

 Natural History (Wetmore, A., Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., vol 7, 

 pp. 3-14, 1927). Type of Pteranodon oregonensis (Gilmore, C. W., 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 24, pp. 1-5, 1928) from the 

 Cretaceous of Oregon was presented by the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington. 



1929 



A collection of dinosaur remains, made for the Museum under the 

 direction of Charles W. Gilmore from the Two Medicine formation 

 of Montana, vas the most important accession of the year. A con- 

 siderable portion of the skeleton of an armored dinosaur, the type of 

 PalaeoscliKMS r^gosidens, the type of Styracosaums oratus (Gilmore, 

 C. W., Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.', vol. 77, art. 16, pp. 1-39, pis. 1-10, 

 1930), and a skull of Dyoplosaurus are specimens worthy of special 

 mention. 



The Florida series of Pleistocene mammals was augmented by a 

 collection made by James W. Gidley, It included the type of a new 

 bear, Arctodits foridawM (Gidley, J. W., Journ. Washington Acad. 

 Sci., vol. 18, pp. 430-433, 1928) . ' 



A small collection of mammals, made by Dr. Harold T. Stearns 

 from the Pleistocene and Pliocene of Idaho, was transmitted by the 

 United States Geological Survey; a skull of a fossil cetothere from 

 the Miocene of California was presented by Dr. K. F. Ousdal. Four 

 elephant teeth illustrated by Prof. Henry F. Osborn from North 

 Carolina presented by the American Museum of Natural History. 

 Nine slabs of fossil tracks from the Triassic of the Comiecticut Valley, 

 Mass., were received in exchange with Amherst College. 



1930 



A collection of horse remains made by James W. Gidley for the 

 museum from the Upper Pliocene near Hagemian, Idaho, was an 

 important contribution. It included the type of Plesippus shosho- 

 nemis (Gidley, J. W., Journ. Mamm., vol. 11, pp. 300-303, 1930), 

 many skulls and other skeletal parts, and also Pleistocene specimens 

 from the vicinity of Twin Falls, Idaho. 



A collection of reptilian specimens from the Kirtland formation, 

 Upper Cretaceous of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, was made 

 for the Museum by a party under the direction of C. W. Gilmore. 

 This included the articulated tail of the hadrosaurian reptile Para- 

 scmrolopkus tuhicen and 20 well-preserved turtle specimens, several 



