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delayed in transit over a year because of disputes between the Bolivian 

 and Argentine authorities, has at last reached Hamburg and is ex- 

 pected shortly to arrive at the Museum. 



The giraffes collected by Mr. Childs Frick have been mounted and 

 installed. The case containing them is probably the largest, cer- 

 tainly the tallest, existing in any museum in the new world. The 

 group is most effective, and has provoked much admiring comment 

 on the part of those who have seen it. It will shortly be followed 

 by the installation of a group of African buffaloes, a group of zebras 

 representing two species, and a group of wildebeests. 



Mr. O. A. Peterson returned in October from the fossil quarry in 

 Uinta County, Utah. Mr. Earl Douglass is remaining at the quarry 

 during the fall and winter. The work during the past summer pro- 

 gressed rapidly, and there are now two carloads of fossil remains 

 which have been taken up and boxed ready to be transferred to the 

 Museum. The bones obtained during the past season are reported 

 to be in remarkably fine condition. As the work has proceeded it 

 has been discovered that the deposit of dinosaurian remains is much 

 richer than was anticipated, and we probably will succeed in removing 

 from the quarry the remains of five or six dinosaurs, large and small. 

 The specimen which has been designated in our operations as "No. I " 

 represents undoubtedly the largest dinosaur which has as yet been 

 discovered nearly complete in the new world. While not as long 

 as the Diplodocus, it is evidently an animal of greater stature and 

 greater bulk. Almost all of the caudal vertebrae have been freed 

 from the matrix, and it has been definitely ascertained that this 

 colossal reptile possessed the same remarkable prolongation of the 

 caudal vertebra? which is such a striking feature in the case of Diplo- 

 docus. It is highly probable that all the sauropod dinosauria were 

 provided with what has been called the "whip tail." 



Specimen "No. 40," which lay alongside of "Specimen No. 1" 

 and just below it in the opening, turns out to be a remarkably perfect 

 skeleton. The ribs were found articulated and in position, and all 

 of the vertebra? have been recovered in a continuous series from the 

 head to nearly the extremity of the tail. While somewhat smaller than 

 specimen "No. I," it is a singularly fine skeleton, surpassing in com- 



