Editorial. 5 



Dr a. E. Ortmann has been making extensive collections of the 

 mollusca of the upper Ohio drainage area. He has found a great deal 

 of material not hitherto represented in our collections and has identi- 

 fied a number of species not hitherto reported as occurring within the 

 limits of Pennsylvania. The collection of UnionidcB made by him is 

 one of the largest and most perfect local collections which has ever 

 been assembled, and will furnish the basis of an interesting paper in 

 the Memoirs of the Museum. 



We are indebted to Dr. Charles Halais, of Paris, for the gift to the 

 Museum of an argus pheasant and a pangolin brought by him from 

 French Cochin China. 



Mr. C. V. Hartman, having accepted the Curatorship of the De- 

 partment of Ethnology in the Royal Museum of Natural History at 

 Stockholm, terminated his connection with the Carnegie Museum on 

 April 15. The Editor is in receipt of a letter from Mr. Hartman, in 

 which he announces that he has entered successfully upon his labors in 

 his new field and is enjoying better health than during the latter por- 

 tion of his stay in Pittsburgh. 



It is a matter of regret to the Editor that he was unable to he present 

 at the last meeting of the American Association of Museums, which 

 was held in Chicago, and which paid him the signal honor of electing 

 him to its presidency. The next meeting will be held in Philadel- 

 phia. The Association has begun a vigorous and useful career. It 

 has been the privilege of the Editor of the Annals to read over the sten- 

 ographic report of the sessions held in Chicago and to read a number 

 of the papers which were presented there. There is certainly no lack 

 of interest and enthusiasm shown by the membership of the Association. 



The group of orang-outangs mounted in the taxidermic laboratory 

 has attracted a great deal of favorable comment since it has been placed 

 upon exhibition. A magnificent group representing the Diamond-back 

 Rattlesnake in its natural environment is being constructed by the 

 gentlemen in the taxidermic laboratory. 



Dr. Percy E. Raymond has been continuing with success his re- 

 searches upon the paleontology of the immediate neighborhood of 



