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chased from George F. Sternberg. A slab of Triassic footprints from 

 Loudoun County, Va., was presented by Frank C. Littleton. Fossil 

 bird bones from the Wasatch Eocene of Wyoming were presented by 

 Dr. E. L. Troxell ; a skull of Eurhinodelphis from the Calvert forma- 

 tion of Chesapeake Bay, Md., was presented by Arlton Murray. 



1932 



A collection principally of mammal remains was made by a party 

 under the direction of Charles W. Gilmore in the Wasatch, Eocene, 

 of the Big Horn Basin, Wyo.; and in the Miocene and Oligocene of 

 western IMontana. In addition to a large number of skulls, jaws, and 

 other parts of skeletons, specimens worthy of especial mention are a 

 considerable part of the skeleton of the large creodont Pachymna 

 gigantea, three partial skeletons of Coryphodon, a skull and lower 

 jaws of the rare Ectoganus gUnfoi'mis (Gazin, C. L., Proc. Amer. 

 Philos. Soc, vol. 76, pp. 597-612, 1936), an articulated skeleton of 

 one of the larger merycoidodonts, and a skull and parts of the skele- 

 ton of Dromomeryx, the two last mentioned from the Miocene of 

 Montana. 



A valuable addition to the collection of Phsippm shoshonensw re- 

 mains from Hagerman, Idaho, was made by a field party working 

 under the direction of Norman H. Boss. Four articulated skeletons, 

 32 skulls, 48 jaws, and a vast quantity of bones representing all parts 

 of the skeleton were secured. This collection also contained the type 

 of the fossil goose Chen pressa (Wetmore, Alexander, Smithsonian 

 Misc. Coll., vol. 87, No. 20, p. 9, 1933). 



A small collection of 60 specimens consisting principally of mam- 

 malian skulls from the Oligocene near Douglass, Wyo., was pur- 

 chased from George F. Sternberg. 



Through gifts from W. W. Holmes, of St. Petersburg, and J. E. 

 Moore, of Sarasota, Fla., the avian collections were increased by many 

 specimens from the Pleistocene of that State. A skull of IUpparion 

 minus from the Miocene of Samos, Greece, was purchased. 



1933 



The most important accession was a collection from the Oligocene 

 of Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, made by a field party 

 under the direction of Charles W. Gilmore during the summer of 

 1932. Specimens worthy of special mention were the type of an 

 extinct eagle, Palaeoplancus sternbergi (Wetmore, A., Smithsonian 

 Misc. Coll., vol. 87, No. 19, pp. 1-9, 1933) ; two articulated skeletons 

 of Mesohippus iairdii; articulated skeletons of Merycoldodon; skele- 

 ton of Leptomeryx and a skull and partial skeleton of Etismilu^ 

 skaritis (jepsen, Glenn L., Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 72, pp. 



