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may be lodged in safety under the roof of the Institute in Pittsburgh. 

 The work of extracting the bones, studying them, ami assembling 

 them for exhibition will necessarily consume much time and labor. 



It is with great pleasure that we have welcomed at the Museum 

 Mr. Childs Frick, who has safely returned from his long and arduous 

 journey through the wilds of Abyssinia. Mr. Frick has added a large 

 number of specimens to the collections of the Museum. Of particular 

 interest is a fine series of skins of Tragelaphns buxtoni Lydekker, an 

 equally good series of the Abyssinian Ibex, and a large number of 

 finely preserved skins of Colobus guereza, which when mounted will 

 form a beautiful group. In addition to these specimens there are a 

 multitude of others representing the mammalian fauna of the regions 

 through which he traveled. 



The group of zebras collected by Mr. Frick on the occasion of his 

 first journey and mounted by Mr. J. A. Santens has been placed upon 

 exhibition, and the African Buffaloes collected at the same time have 

 been set up in most lifelike positions and before this page is printed 

 will likewise be displayed in the gallery of mammals. The latter 

 group has been mounted by Mr. R. H. Santens. Other groups 

 belonging to the Frick collection of East African mammals will follow 

 as quickly as they can be mounted. 



Our grateful thanks are due to the founder of the Institute for 

 renewing during this year his generous gifts for the promotion of 

 paleontological researches. Without the grants, which he in his kind- 

 ness makes, our work in this important field of human endeavor would 

 come to an end. He has been the life and the soul of all our activities, 

 and we trust that he may long be spared to the world of which he has 

 been so eminent a benefactor. 



Mr. W. F. C. Todd returned to the Museum in November, after 

 his long journey to the western coast of Labrador. He brought back 

 with him over thirteen hundred specimens representing the avifauna 

 of the region, and succeeded in ascertaining a greal many facts of 

 interest in relation to the geographical distribution and the breeding 

 habit- of the birds of eastern North America. He likewise secured 

 for the Museum a considerable collection of mammals. In making his 



