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and a large number of the publications of Gaudry, Gervais, and others. 

 A beautiful set of Dresser's '* Birds of Europe " has been acquired by 

 our reference library from the author. 



Messrs. W. E. C. Todd and M. A. Carriker, Jr., have just re- 

 turned from the trip which they made to the southern end of James 

 Bay. In addition to bringing home some three hundred specimens of 

 birds with him, Mr. Todd reports that he has made some valuable 

 notes. It is to be regretted that having journeyed so far the party 

 did not remain longer and make larger collections. 



Mr. O. a. Peterson has spent the summer at the Agate Springs 

 fossil quarry, Sioux County, Nebraska, where he took the place of 

 Mr. W. H. Utterback, who unexpectedly threw up his commission to 

 continue work in that locality. Mr. Utterback has ceased to be an 

 employe of the Carnegie Museum. Mr. Peterson has been highly 

 successful in his labors. 



Mr. Earl Douglass during the summer and fall has been laboring 

 among the Eocene deposits of Utah with marked success. The 

 splendid collection of fossils from the Miocene deposits belonging to 

 the Museum will be supplemented as soon as they can be worked out 

 by beautiful collections from the later Eocene made in Utah. 



The Director of the Museum spent the first three weeks of Septem- 

 ber in a paleontological investigation of the localities at which Messrs. 

 Douglass and Peterson have been working. 



Dr. D. a. Atkinson, accompanied by Mr. Otto E. Jennings and 

 Mr. Gustav Link, in the month of July made a journey from Cherry- 

 tree, Indiana County, eastward along the West Branch of the Susque- 

 hanna River, and then coming up the Juniata, crossed the Alleghenies, 

 returning to the point from which they had started. The object of this 

 journey was to make thorough collections representing the flora and 

 fauna with a view to ascertaining, among other things, the dividing 

 line between the fresh-water fauna of the Susquehanna water-shed and 

 that of the Ohio. 



