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adult, about 200 mm. long, in the Schenley Park Conservatory, where 

 it appears, from statements made by the workmen, to be fairly common. 



Geo. H. Clapp. 



Early in May, Mr. W. E. C. Todd, Dr. D. A. Atkinson, and Mr. 

 George Mellor, representing the Museum, were sent on an expedition 

 to northeastern .\merica for the purpose of collecting birds and other 

 objects of interest for the Museum. After spending some time in the 

 province of New Brunswick they repaired to the Magdalen Islands and 

 to Bird Rock, in the St. Lawrence, where extensive collections of sea- 

 fowl were made. They thence proceeded to Newfoundland, and, after 

 spending some time in collection in that island, they went to Labra- 

 dor. On going to press they still are at Nain, on the Labrador coast, 

 where they are busily at work. 



The work of exploring the fossil fields of the West has been carried 

 on during the past summer with great vigor under the direction of 

 Mr. J. B. Hatcher. The party employed at Canon City under the 

 immediate charge of Mr. \V. H. Utterback, has been very successful 

 in recovering a large amount of valuable material from the quarry 

 long successfully worked by the late Prof. O. C. Marsh. The Museum 

 has acquired title to eighty acres of land lying north of this locality, 

 on which Professor Cope at one time labored very successfully and 

 from which he recovered a great many specimens. Instructions have 

 been given by Mr. Hatcher to thoroughly open up the deposits on 

 this ground, and from present appearances the Museum will be greatly 

 enriched. The deposits abound in fossils in an admirable state of 

 preservation and Professor Cope's work, though extensive, has left 

 scarcely any impression upon the beds, which it is now intended to 

 thoroughly explore. No better location in all the region of the Rocky 

 Mountains could be found in which to work out the phylogeny of the 

 the dinosaurs of the Jurassic deposits. Almost all the horizons in 

 which these great vertebrates occur are here found, and in every 

 horizon there are exposed to view skeletons which it will be possible 

 for the Museum to secure. The work at Sheei) Creek, in Wyoming, 

 under the care of Mr. Gilmore, has also progressed very satisfactorily. 

 Mr. Gilmore reports himself as having secured the greater portion of 

 the skeleton of a large specimen of Brontosaurus. 



