

ANNALS 



OF THE 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



VOLUME XIL NOS. 2-4. 



Editorial Notes. 



The exigencies of the period, which began when the United 

 States were forced into the world war by Germany, left their impress 

 upon the entire life of the nation, and affected every individual and 

 institution. The Carnegie Museum did not escape this influence. 

 In view of all the circumstances and the painful economies which 

 seemed to be necessitated, the Director of the Museum, who is also 

 the Editor of its publications, felt constrained to suspend the issue of 

 the Annals and Memoirs of the Museum, until such time as the 

 institution might be relieved in a measure from the financial embar- 

 rassment into which it had been brought in the spring of 1918 by the 

 reduction in its revenues, which took place at that time. During the 

 year 1918 no parts of either of the above-named publications were 

 placed in the hands of the printer. It is a matter of congratulation 

 that in May, 1919, we were apprised of the fact that the funds avail- 

 able for the work of the Museum for the current fiscal year had been 

 restored to the same amount as that which had been granted in a num- 

 ber of the preceding years, and accordingly steps have been taken to 

 issue as speedily as possible a number of valuable and important 

 papers on various subjects which should, and under other circum- 

 stances would, have been published in 191 8. The Editor sincerely 

 hopes that the temporary delay in the issue of these contributions to 

 science may not have worked entire disappointment to the authors 

 of the same, and that he may receive their pardon in view of the fact 

 that the circumstances were not of his making or choosing. 

 3 — DEC. 2, 1919 33 



