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invertebrates contained in the Bayet collection. He left for the West 

 at the end of April, and, after visiting Chicago and Denver, spent 

 some time with Mr, Earl Douglass in his camp at the dinosaur quarries 

 in Utah. He is extending his journey to the Pacific coast, and will 

 probably not return to Pittsburgh before the late summer or early fall. 



Dr. ]. Perner of the Bohemian National Museum of Prag, and 

 Baron F. v. Huene of the University of Tubingen, both widely known 

 among the rising paleontologists of Europe, visited the Museum during 

 the month of May. Like Dr. Schaffer, they are intending to spend 

 the summer months in making reconnoissances in the fossil fields 

 of the Rocky Mountain region. 



A number of visitors from different cities of the United States and 

 from abroad have spent considerable time in the Museum, with a view 

 to studying the building and the methods of administration which 

 prevail here. Among those who have quite recently visited us was 

 Mr. Cecil C. Brewer of London, England, who is charged with the 

 work of preparing the plans for the new National Museum of Wales, 

 which is to be erected at Cardiff. We are constantly being requested 

 to furnish plans relating to the building, and the cases which we use, 

 to museums throughout the United States and foreign countries, and 

 it is always a pleasure to be able to meet requests for information. 



It may be said that many of our visitors have expressed pleasure 

 at the results obtained in the Museum by side-lighting. Cross-lighting 

 unfortunately leads to perplexing reflections and shadows, and while 

 it is impossible by any system of side-lighting to secure as much 

 illumination as is secured by cross-lighting, nevertheless the general 

 effect, provided the windows are made large enough, is far more 

 pleasing and restful to the eye. This is well illustrated in our galleries 

 of vertebrate paleontology, which are lighted from the side, but in 

 which we have succeeded in securing ample illumination, with the 

 elimination of the puzzling reflections which would exist were the 

 room lighted from both sides. 



Professor Charles R. Eastman is completing his work of 

 cataloging and reporting upon the fossil fishes contained in the Bayet 

 collection. His paper upon the Eocene Fishes of Monte Bolca con- 

 stitutes the last part of Vol. IV of the Memoirs. His report upon 

 the Fishes from Solenhofen is ready for the printer, and will very 

 shortly be followed by a report upon the Fishes from Cerin and else- 

 where. 



