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Owing to the hardness of the rock and the immense size of the specimens 

 considerable time will yet be required before the skeletons are extracted 

 from the matrix. The work of excavation has proved itself more difificult 

 than it was originally supposed that it would be. 



During the past twelve months the Carnegie Museum has received 

 from Mr. M. A. Carriker, Jr., large shipments of the birds of Venezuela, 

 representing several hundred species, most of which are new to our col- 

 lections. The number of our desiderata among South American birds 

 has been materially lessened by shipments received from Mr. Jos6 Stein- 

 bach, who is working for the Museum in Bolivia. We hope that ulti- 

 mately our collection of the birds of South America will be as large as our 

 collection of the fishes of that continent. 



A NUMBER of interesting Egyptian antiquities have been received 

 through the Egypt Exploration Fund. 



Dr. C. H. Eigenmann was present at the International Zoological 

 Congress at Graz, Austria. Prior to appearing at the Congress he 

 visited London, Berlin, Vienna, and other points with a view to study- 

 ing the collections of South American fifshes preserved in those cities. 

 The manuscript of his memoir upon the Fishes of British Guiana is well 

 in hand and will soon be put into press. 



