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decided by Mr. Carnegie on cunfereiice with me lu acquire the 

 Bayet Collection for the Carnegie Museum. Inasmuch as Pro- 

 fessor J. B. Hatcher,* our Curator of Palaeontology, in the spring 

 of 1903, was unable to go to Europe, the task of arranging for the 

 safe transfer of the collection fell upon my shoulders, and at the 

 urgent entreaty of Dr. Eastman I took him along to assist in the 

 work. He was especially interested in the fossil fashes, and re- 

 ceived permission to take a certain number of specimens with him 

 to Paris for comparison with the types of the elder Agassiz, which 

 are preserved in the National Museum of France, and later he 

 returned them to the Carnegie Museum. It had been arranged 

 by the writer and Professor Hatcher that the fossil fishes of the 

 Bayet Collection should be assigned to Dr. Eastman for study and 

 description. However, an unfortunate disagreement between 

 Professor Hatcher and Dr. Eastman led to the abandonment of 

 this plan, and it was not until a number of years after Professor 

 Hatcher's death that the writer again decided to employ Dr. 

 Eastman for the accomplishment of the task, for which he was 

 eminently fitted. He came to Pittsburgh in the early summer of 

 1 910, and thereafter for three years was allnost constantly occupied 

 with the work of classifying and arranging the fossil fishes in our 

 collection, at the same time holding a minor position in the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh. The results of his labors upon the material 

 in this Museum are contained in the following papers from his pen: 



In the Memoirs — 



Vol. II, No. 3. "Fossil Avian Remains from Armissan," 8 pp., 



4 pis. 

 " IV, No. 7. "Catalog of the Eocene Fishes from Monte 



Bolca in the Carnegie Museum," 66 pp., 



12 pis. 

 " VI, No. 5. "Supplement to the Catalog of the Fishes from 



the Upper Eocene of Monte Bolca," 34 pp., 



6 pis. 

 " " No. 6. " Catalog of Fossil Fishes from the Lithographic 



Stone of Cerin, France," 40 pp., 9 pis. 

 " " No. 7. "Catalog of Fossil Fishes from the Lithographic 



Stone of Solenhofen, Bavaria," 35 pp., 



17 pis. 



