Editorials. 3 



The collection of ivory carvings loaned by Mr. J. H. Ilcinz has 

 proved most attractive to the general public. Mr. Heinz has recently 

 presented to the Museum a magnificent eagle, life-size, done in ivory. 

 It has been mounted in a case specially constructed for its reception, 

 where it rivets the attention of multitudes. It is one of the largest 

 pieces of ivory carving in existence. 



We are deeply indebted to Mr. Nathaniel Holmes and Miss Eleanor 

 Holmes for the loan to the Museum of a magnificent collection of old 

 Chinese procelain, upon which visitors to the Museum have constantly 

 feasted their eyes. 



The Director, accompanied by Mr. Arthur S. Coggeshall, early 

 in November repaired to Madrid, to instal in the National Museum 

 of Spain a replica of Diplodocus carnegiei. He was received with the 

 greatest courtesy by the officials of the Museum, and had the honor of 

 an audience with His Majesty Alphonso XIII., and also of meeting 

 Her Majesty Dona Maria Christina, the mother of the King. During 

 his stay in Madrid the Director was honored by many tokens of kind- 

 ness and good will not the least of which was his election as an honorary 

 member of the Royal Spanish Society of the Natural Sciences. On 

 the afternoon of November 28, the Director had the pleasure of giving 

 an illustrated lecture before the Royal Society in the large audience 

 room of the International Institute for women. It was with peculiar 

 emotions that he arose to address his audience. Hanging on the wall 

 of the room to his left was a portrait of the late Mrs. Alice Gordon 

 Gulick, to whose philanthropy the Institute owes its existence. In 

 her young life this noble woman was an acquaintance of the speaker. 

 The sight of her features, glorified by the consecrating touch of years 

 of self-denying labor on behalf of the womanhood of Spain, naturally 

 awoke a flood of memories, and across the bridge of more than two- 

 score years there came, as phantoms come in dreams, the forms of 

 those who were her friends. 



It is with satisfaction that the Director records the publication in 

 the IMemoirs of his Monograph upon the Osteology of the Chalico- 

 theroidea, which forms the final part of Volume III of that series of 



