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sively to the columns of various agricultural journals published in the 

 middle West, and was a regular correspondent for a long time of the 

 New York Evening Post. He was deeply interested in paleontology 

 and reckoned among his friends and correspondents Dr. Samuel H. 

 Scudder, Professor O. C. Marsh, Professor Leidy, and Professor 

 Edward D. Cope, for all of whom he at various times gathered speci- 

 mens. The collection turned over to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. 

 Barber is especially valuable because it contains a large series of fossils 

 from Mazon Creek, Grundy County, Illinois, a classic locality, which 

 has in later years been more or less exhausted. There are also many 

 specimens of fossil invertebrates collected from various horizons in 

 New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky. The collection of 

 books contains a great many volumes and parts of volumes, which 

 will fill lacunae in the library of the Museum, more particularly sets 

 of the Geological Surveys of the various States and Territories, early 

 numbers of which are now somewhat difficult to secure. 



Mr. W. E. Clyde Todd and Mr. O. J. Murie, accompanied by Mr. 

 Alfred Marshall, of Chicago, started at the end of April on an expedi- 

 tion to the peninsula of Labrador. This expedition is financed jointly 

 by the Carnegie Museum, the National Geographic Society of Wash- 

 ington, and Mr. Marshall, who accompanies it. The expedition made 

 its point of departure from the Bay of Seven Islands, whence it was 

 their intention to go northward by river and lake until they should 

 reach Ungava. After reaching the latter point it is their intention, if 

 possible, to cross the divide between Ungava Bay and the eastern 

 shore of Hudson Bay, returning along the eastern coast of Hudson 

 Bay to James Bay, whence they will return southward along a route 

 already familiar to Mr. Todd and Mr. Murie from previous excursions. 

 The Director of the Museum received a letter from Mr. Todd as they 

 were on the point of starting north from the Bay of Seven Islands. 

 Since then nothing has been heard from the expedition, nor is it likely 

 that anything can be heard from them until they again reach the 

 abodes of civilized men. They went abundantly equipped with pro- 

 visions and hoped to avoid the misfortunes of one or two other 

 parties who in times past essayed the exploration of the interior of 

 Labrador. 



