Editorial. 3 



Carnegie Institute, indignant at the manner in which weaUhy Ameri- 

 cans have been imposed upon by the sale to them of bogus Rembrandts 

 and Corots, secretly resolved in conspiracy with the Director of the 

 Carnegie Museum to perpetrate upon the unsuspecting European 

 public a gigantic hoax, and accordingly had the Diplodocus fabricated, 

 and actually succeeded in palming it off upon crowned heads and the 

 scientific men of Europe. After that the two conspirators are repre- 

 sented as foregathering at Skibo and indulging in quiet chuckles over 

 the success of their wicked scheme. To what lengths will not the 

 journalistic fancy go ? 



Mr. John D. Haseman has completed the work of thoroughly ex- 

 ploring the rivers of the Brazilian highlands north and west of Bahia 

 in quest of fishes, and has sent to the Museum a collection of over four 

 thousand specimens taken by him during this portion of his journey. 

 He is at present engaged in collecting in the streams of the Province 

 of Sao Paulo. 



A COLLECTION of birds made at Biskra by Mr. Joseph Steinbach 

 during the last winter has been acquired. It consists of over three 

 hundred specimens, representing eighty-two species of the birds found 

 in that locality. 



A CONSIDERABLE collection of skulls and skeletons representing 

 genera not hitherto found in our osteological collection was acquired 

 by the Director of the Carnegie Museum during his stay in Europe, 

 purchases having been made in a number of places. This material is 

 now on exhibition in the Gallery of Mammals. 



Opportunity was afforded while in Berlin and Paris to make search 

 for various works of reference urgently called for in recent years. 

 Among other excellent acquisitions was a complete set of " Palaeonto- 

 graphica," Blainville's great work on Osteology, Semon's " For- 

 schungen in Australien," " Zoologica," a complete set of the publica- 

 tions of the Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique, the " Abhand- 

 lungen der Schweizerischen Paleontologischen Gesellschaft, ' ' a complete 

 set of the " Jenaische Zeitschrift fiir Naturwissenschaften," of the 

 " Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschenden Freunde zu 

 Berlin," of Barrande's " Systeme Silurien du Centre de la Boheme," 



