90 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



Mr. Phalen has made a study of rocks collected by Messrs. Schuchert 

 and White in Greenland in 1S97. 



Papers b\^ meml)er.s of the U. S. Geolog-ical Surve}^ upon materials 

 in the section of paleobotan}^ are noted in the bibliography. 



The personnel of the Department remains the same as last j^ear. Mr, 

 J. W, Coleman, skilled laborer in the section of vertebrate paleon- 

 tology, who had i)een away on \enve of absence, returned to work on 

 8eptoml)or li>. H>(>!2, but tinally severed hisi connection with the 

 Museum dui'ing the lattei- i)art of June. 



