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War. Through his paternal grandmother he is descended from Dr. 

 George Lehman, who was staff surgeon with General George Wash- 

 ington at Valley Forge, Staten Island, Perth Amboy and elsewhere. 

 He is also descended from General von Lasher, who was one of the 

 German officers who rendered distinguished services during the Amer- 

 ican Revolution to the cause of the colonists. His cousin, Mr. 

 William Ashmead Bartlett, of London, has figured prominently in 

 university and ]iolitical circles in England. 



Thf. reproduction of the skeleton of Diplodocus carnegii \\\)\z\i Mr. 

 Carnegie has authorized for the purpose of presenting the same to the 

 British Museum, is going on as rapidly as can be expected. The 

 work is one of great difficulty, and requires vast care and patience, so 

 that all the characteristic features of each bone may be represented 

 accurately. 



The paleontologists in the field report themselves as being very 

 successful. Mr. C. W. Gilmore having completed his labors in the 

 Freeze-out Mountains of Wyoming, has repaired to western Kansas, 

 where he will work during the remainder of the summer in the chalk. 

 Mr. Earl Douglass is hard at work in Montana. Mr. Hatcher has at 

 latest advices returned from a geological reconnoissance on the 

 southern borders of the British territory adjoining Montana, and 

 thence went into the region of the Judith River. He reports the 

 party as well and prospering, but finding the weather disagreeable and 

 inclement. While Pittsburgh has been sweltering under torrid skies 

 our explorers have been rained and snowed upon daily. 



Mr. O. a. Peterson is at work upon a monograph of the fossils of 

 camels, which he has recently discovered, and one of the skeletons of 

 which will this summer be set up in the laboratory. The material 

 obtained last summer in Nebraska is very fine, and will serve well to 

 illustrate some of the rarer and little known species of extinct Cam- 

 elidse. 



Professor. CH.A.RLES R. Eastman, of Harvard University, will write 

 up and describe the fossil fishes contained in the collection which has 

 just been secured by Mr. Carnegie from the Baron de Bayet. 



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