Editorial Notes. 3 



of papers upon Museology and Historic Entomology. The Congress was 

 attended by delegates from all ]xuts of the worlti, and many of the most 

 noted entomologists of Great Britain and the continent were in attendance. 

 The sessions were remarkably successful, and a handsome volume em- 

 bodying the papers, which were presented, will shortly be published. 



Leaving Brussels a few minutes after midnight on the 6th of August, 

 Cherbourg was reached on the afternoon of the same day, and the Director 

 was back at his post in the Museum on August the 15th. 



The Director wishes to acknowledge his profound gratitude for the 

 generosity and public spirit shown by Mr. Childs Frick in presenting to 

 the Museum the magnificent collection of the skins and skeletons of the 

 East African mammals which he took upon the occasion of his hunting 

 excursion to British East Africa during the fall and winter of 1909 and the 

 spring of 1910. The collection is very large, numbering nearly two 

 hundred specimens, which represent in almost every case species not 

 hitherto represented in the collections of the Museum. The work of 

 mounting this superb collection will necessarily consume some time, but 

 the task has been approached with great enthusiasm and energy by 

 the Messrs. Santens and their associates. It is proposed to assemble the 

 collection of the mammalia of East Africa at the eastern end of the great 

 Hall of Mammals, where a space will be definitely set apart for "the Frick 

 Collection." A group of oryx antelopes in lifelike poses is already well 

 under way, and before these lines pass through the press the great bull 

 girafTe will have been mounted in a most lifelike pose. As rapidly as 

 possible various other great mammals will be set up. The example of 

 Mr. Frick is one which may well be emulated by the brotherhood of Nim- 

 rods in Pittsburgh, a brotherhood large and enthusiastic, and including 

 many men mighty with the rifle and the camera. 



Mr. C. R. Eastman has spent the summer in studying the fossil fishes 

 of Monte Bolca and Solenhofen acquired by the Carnegie Museum at the 

 time the Bayet Collection was purchased. Mr. Eastman reports that the 

 assemblage of fossil fishes from these formations in the Carnegie Museum 

 is in some respects finer even than similar collections in Europe, and 

 altogether the best in America. 



Mr. Earl Douglass reports that the work which he had been carrying 

 on at Dinosaur Peak in Utah is progressing as rapidly as could be expected- 



