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part, both prepared as slab mounts, were put on view. The material 

 in the possession of the Carnegie Museum representing the ancestry of 

 the camel is very extensive and perfect. A number of changes were 

 made in the Gallery of Vertebrate Paleontology and a large amount of 

 material, most of it collected by the members of the paleontological 

 staff, and some of it obtained in exchange, was put on exhibition. 

 The collection of Hawaiian fishes, which has been materially added 

 to, is calculated to attract attention. The ivories loaned by Mr. H. 

 J. Heinz, the collection of Japanese weapons loaned by Mr. Irwin 

 Laughlin, the beautiful collection of watches, which has been ma- 

 terially increased by Mr. H. J. Heinz during the past six months, 

 awakened unusual interest. All of the collections in the various sec- 

 tions received more or less interesting and important accessions, and 

 the general impression created by the collections of the Museum as a 

 whole is believed to have been greatly heightened by the efforts which 

 have been bestowed upon these things during the past few months. 



Dr. Victor Sterki of New Philadelphia, Ohio, has been appointed 

 as an assistant to Dr. A. E. Ortmann in the Section of Recent Inver- 

 tebrates of the Carnegie Museum, and will give a certain proportion of 

 his time to the arrangement of his great collection, which has become 

 the property of the Carnegie Museum, with a special view to a mono- 

 graphic revision of some of the groups therein represented of which he 

 has made a special study and in which his collection is probably richer 

 than any other in existence. As a student of the minuter mollusca 

 Dr. Sterki has earned for himself a distinguished reputation. 



Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann, Dean of the Postgraduate School of the 

 Indiana State University, and Professor of Zoology in that institution, 

 has been appointed by the Director Curator of Ichthyology in the 

 Carnegie Museum. The arrangement is made with the understanding 

 that this appointment will in no wise interfere with the discharge of 

 his duties in the important positions which he holds in the faculty of 

 the Indiana State University, but that he will give so much of his 

 time as he is able to spare to the oversight of the ichthyological col- 

 lections of the Carnegie Museum and to the study of the collections 

 which are contained in the Museum. In the next number of the 

 Annals there will appear the first of a series of reports by Dr. Eigen- 

 mann upon the fishes collected by him in British Guiana. He was 



