ANNALS 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



VOLUME VII. NO. I. 



Editorial Notes. 



The Director of the Museum, according to an understanding with the 

 authorities of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, left 

 Pittsburgh on the 4th of June and arrived in St. Petersburg on the 14th of 

 the same month. The work of installing the replica of the skeleton of 

 Diplodociis carnegiei in the great Lecture Hall of the Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences was immediately taken in hand and was finally brought to com- 

 pletion about the middle of July. During his stay in St. Petersburg the 

 Director of the Museum received many evidences of the kind regard of 

 the different members of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the promise 

 that all the publications of the Academy should be sent as soon as possible 

 to the library of the Carnegie Museum. Special hospitality and courtesy 

 were shown by His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine, by 

 M. Iswolky, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Oldenburg, the Secretary 

 of the Academy, M. Th. Tschernyschew, the Director of the Geological 

 Survey of the empire, M. Mogilansky, the Director of the Great Ethno- 

 logical Museum bearing the name of Alexander HI, and by many others 

 among the leading scientific men of the Russian capital. The Director 

 made it a point to acquaint himself thoroughly with the work which is 

 being done not only in the museums of St. Petersburg, but in Moscow. 

 In the latter city, under the guidance of M. Krishkoff he visited all the 

 museums and was able to obtain thorough knowledge of what is being 

 accomplished for the advancement of science in Moscow, a city the 

 wealthy and intelligent citizens of which are displaying in recent years a 



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