ANNALS 



OF THE 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



VOLUME V. NO. 4. 



Editorial Notes. 

 The annual celebration of Founder's Day took place on April the 

 29th. The distinguished guests of the occasion were Count Johann 

 Heinrich von Bernstorff, who gave a most scholarly address upon 

 "The Constitution of the German Empire"; Sir Caspar Purdon 

 Clarke, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 

 and Mr. Alfred East, President of the Royal Society of British Artists. 

 The hall was filled with a large audience. Unfortunatel)' the pleasures 

 of the occasion were somewhat marred at their close by a most furious 

 storm of wind and rain, which swept over the city and which com- 

 pelled the presence until a late evening hour of many of the audience 

 who had forgotten to bring with them umbrellas and raincoats. How- 

 ever, the rare feast which was provided for them in the Art Galleries 

 and in the Museum served to make their involuntary detention more 

 pleasurable than it would otherwise have been. 



Although from time to time during the twelve months preceding 

 Founder's Day most interesting exhibits were placed upon exhibition 

 in the Museum, a special effort was made on that occasion to put on 

 view some of our accumulated treasures. The Gallery of Reptiles, 

 although only scantily furnished, was for the first time thrown open to 

 the public. In the Gallery of Vertebrate Zoology a magnificent 

 specimen oi Portheus inolossus, believed to be the finest in existence 

 in any museum in the world, was put upon display. Two skeletons 

 of Steiwtnylus tyleri Loomis, one of them almost complete in every 



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