194 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



In the Section of Ornithology a fine group of Red-shouldered Hawks, 

 representing a nest with the male and female bird and the young, has 

 been placed upon exhibition. The specimens were taken in Alle- 

 gheny County in the spring of 191 1, and were mounted by Mr. Joseph 

 A. Santens. 



On the evening of April the 17th Captain F. E. Kleinschmidt, who 

 collected for the Carnegie Museum during the summer of 191 1 in 

 Alaska and Wrangel-land, gave an exhibition of moving pictures taken 

 by him on his voyage. The large Music Hall was filled to its capacity, 

 and had the night not been unusually inclement many would have 

 been unable to find admission. It is the unanimous opinion of all, 

 who witnessed the display of pictures and heard what Captain Klein- 

 schmidt had to say, that the exhibition was the most beautiful and 

 in some respects the most instructive of the entire year. The seal- 

 herds, the groups of walruses resting upon the ice-floes, the chase of 

 the polar bear, the wonderful views of the bird rookeries were a 

 revelation. In the audience were a number of gentlemen who have 

 pursued game not only with the rifle, but with the camera, and they 

 were unanimous in declaring that Captain Kleinschmidt's pictures 

 are the finest representations of big game photographed in the open 

 which have thus far been taken. One gentleman in writing of the 

 lecture said, "All that was needed was a lower temperature in the 

 auditorium to make you imagine that you were actually in the arctic." 



From the expedition in Utah there have been received interesting 

 reports, showing that the quarry on Dinosaur Peak contains far more 

 than was at first supposed. Thus far skeletons of at least twelve 

 dinosaurs, large and small, belonging to various genera and species, 

 have been found. Several of these are in such condition as to make it 

 possible to set them up in their entirety, very few parts failing to be 

 well represented. No such aggregation of dinosaurian remains, 

 resting in practically undisturbed position, has ever as yet been found 

 in the history of paleontology. The animals were for the most part 

 firmly imbedded in the sand and gravel where they originally were 

 deposited, and fossilization has taken place in such a manner as to 

 preserve even some parts of the cartilaginous skeleton. We have 

 also obtained impressions of portions of the skin of some of the indi- 

 viduals. A flood of light is thus thrown upon the whole subject. 



