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Mr. Peterson has completed his work of the summer in the vicinity 

 of Harrison, Nebraska, and reports ])henomenal success. Altogether 

 the work of the Museum in the Department of Paleontology during 

 the summer of 1901 appears likely to prove memorable in the history 

 of the institution. 



Through the kindness of Mr. Carnegie the Museum has received 

 one of five ancient boats which were discovered a few years ago at 

 Dhakshur, about twenty miles above Cairo and about two miles from the 

 present course of the river Nile. One of these boats was obtained a 

 year or two ago by the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago. The 

 specimen received by the Museum appears to be in excellent condition 

 in view of its age — 4,500 years. It is over thirty feet in length, seven 

 feet in beam, and about five feet deep. At present there is no space 

 in the exhibition halls sufficiently large to admit of its exhibition, and 

 it will be stored until such time as the new exhibition halls are com- 

 pleted. Permission has kindly been accorded by Mr. E. M. Bigelow 

 to erect a temporary structure in the Park in which it will be housed. 



