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seum made during the past decade. The perfection and richness of 

 the collections was the cause for many admiring utterances, which 

 generally ended with the remark that " with the support of such a 

 Ma'cenas as IVIr. Carnegie it is only to be expected that such results 

 should have been achieved." 



The manuscript of Professor Eigenmann's large monographic work 

 upon the Fishes of British Guiana has been completed and will con- 

 stitute the Fifth Volume of the Memoirs. The plates, of which there 

 are seventy, are being engraved and the maps and text-illustrations 

 are being made. It is hoped to put the work through the press by 

 the end of the current vear. 



Dr. Charles R. Eastman has completed cataloging the fossil 

 fishes from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, which form a part of the col- 

 lection of fishes obtained through the j^urchase of the collection of 

 Baron Ernst Bayet. His list, accompanied by a number of figures of 

 line specimens, will be published as the concluding number of Vol. 

 IV of the Memoirs. A similar list of the Fossil Fishes from Solen- 

 hofen contained in the Bayet Collection is in process of preparation 

 by the same author. 



A GREAT deal of the time of the Editor has been occupied in the 

 revision and preparation for publication of various papers upon the 

 Expedition of the Carnegie Museum to Central South America. The 

 Expedition, which was under the care of Mr. John D. Haseman, has 

 resulted in a great enlargement of our knowledge of the ichthyic 

 fauna of the various South American river basins, and many species 

 new to science have been acquired. Some of the first fruits of Mr. 

 Haseman's labors will appear in this volume of the Annals. 



The work of building cabinets for the Laboratory of recent inverte- 

 brates has gone forward steadily during the past six months, and 

 it is hoped that before mid-summer the room from which Professor 

 Ortmann has been excluded for nearly a year may be ready for reoccu- 

 pation. The delay has been inevitable, owing to the inability of the 

 Director to supply a sufficient force of workmen to advance the labor 

 rapidly. If means can be found to provide the necessary trays for 

 the cabinets the large collections of shells contained in the Holland, 



