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the Martnian, and tin- Stcrki Collections will he arranged and made 

 accessible to students. These collections owned by the Museum for 

 nearh- ten years have hitherto been necessarily packed away and out 

 of sight. 



The work of niounlini; ihe large collection of Hast African nianmials 

 dcpositi'd ill [\\v Museum by Mr. Childs iM'ick is going forward as 

 rapidl\- as possible, with the limited number of persons at the command 

 of the institution. The large Tippelkirch's Giraffe has been set up, 

 and the manikin of the Reticulated Giraffe has been made, but it 

 will be impossible to have both specimens finished and in shape to 

 display them at the coming celebration of Founder's Day. The 

 ory.x group has been completed. Most of the skins have been tanned 

 and matters are in such shape that the work might be rapidly advanced 

 were there funds at the disposal of the Director to employ more work- 

 men, and could competent men he found. The number of skilled 

 taxidermists in America — for that matter in the world — is very 

 limited. 



A COMPLETE copy of the Ornithological Works of John Gould has 

 been purchased for the library of the Museum. The work is one 

 which has long been needed and the opportunity to secure' a set at 

 a very reasonable figure was promptly seized. 



By an unfortunate blunder on the part of the printer, the three 

 plates illustrating the paper of Professor Earl Douglass upon Eocene 

 Mammals, contained in the Sixth Volume of the Annals, were omitted 

 in the hound edition of that volume, though they appeared in the 

 reprints, which were distributed in the early summer of 1910. Copies 

 of these plates are being issued to subscribers and regular corre- 

 spondents. 



Mis Majesty the Czar of Russia has sent his photograph, autograph- 

 ically signed, and beautifully framed, to Mr. Carnegie in recognition 

 of his gift of a replica of the Diplodocus. The Director of the Museum 

 has received the decoration of a Knight of the Order of St. Stanislas, 

 of the Second Class, and Mr. A. S. Coggeshall, his assistant, has 

 received the decoration of a Knight of the Order of St. Anne, of the 

 Fourth Class. 



