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pleteness any skeleton which has heretofore been unearthed in Amer- 

 ica. Both the hind limbs and forelimbs, and the feet, wen- found 

 practically in position. 



Voli mi: V of the Memoirs, being Dr. C. II. Eigenmann's magnum 

 opus, upon the Fishes of British Guiana, is rapidly going through the 

 press, and, in spite of some inevitable delays, will shortly appear. 



President D. Starr Jordan has returned from his visit to Japan, 

 Korea, and China. The Editor is in receipt of several delightful 

 letters from him, in which he informs us that he succeeded in securing, 

 largely through the courtesy of the Japanese authorities in Japan and 

 Korea, one of the largest, if not altogether the largest, collection of the 

 fishes of those countries, which has up to the present time been brought 

 to America. The collections will remain in his possession temporarily 

 to enable him to study them, and he promises shortly to furnish us 

 a paper on the fishes of Korea. 



PREPARATIONS are Ining made for the reception and entertainment 



of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philo- 



I Association, which will be jointly provided for by the University 



of Pittsburgh and the authorities of the Institute during the week 



intervening between Christmas and the first day of the Xew Year. 



The installation of the new furniture in the laboratory of Dr. 

 Ortmann is nearing completion. When finished there will be room 

 for the arrangement and classification of the great collections under 

 the care of the curator of recent invertebrates, and they will thus 

 become accessible to students. 



During the summer months Dr. Ortmann made a number of 

 excursions, reaching the sources of a number of the rivers of West 

 Virginia and Kentucky. He has made a number of interesting dis- 

 coveries. 



Ax unknown donor has recently sent to the .Museum a beautiful 

 specimen of an albino robin, which has been prepared and placed 

 in the collection. It is to be wished that we could know the name of 



