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the Secretary of the Interior was carried into effect, the tract being 

 designated as the "National Dinosaur Monument." Subsequently 

 the application of the Carnegie Museum for permission to continue 

 the work which it had commenced was granted, subject to the rules 

 and regulations in such cases made and provided by the Department 

 of the Interior, and Mr. Douglass has been instructed to prosecute 

 the work with all due diligence and energy. 



It is with great satisfaction that we view the completion of the 

 installation of the skeleton of Apatosauriis louisce. The specimen 

 has been mounted alongside the skeleton of Diplodocus carnegiei, 

 and room has been reserved in the gallery to permit the erection be- 

 tween the two colossal specimens of an example of AUosaunis, or one 

 of the other carnivorous dinosaurs of Jurassic times, which preyed 

 upon the Sauropoda. We have not as yet placed in position the skull 

 which was found with the skeleton of Apatosauriis, having resolved to 

 await the further progress of research in the quarry, which may 

 possibly result in the discovery of a skull directly articulated with the 

 cervical vertebrae, thus settling beyond the shadow of a doubt what 

 type of skull belonged to the animal. 



The skeleton of A. louiscB is the largest skeleton of a dinosaur at the 

 present time erected in any museum, and is probably the most perfect 

 specimen of a sauropod dinosaur which has thus far been found. It 

 consists throughout of the bones of one individual, the entire vertebral 

 series of bones from the atlas to the end of the tail having been 

 found in such order as to enable their collocation without any doubt 

 as to the correctness of the positions assigned to them. 



A PARTITION-WALL has been erected at the western end of the Gallery 

 of Useful and Industrial Arts for the purpose of setting oft' a space 

 in which it is intended to bring together the beautiful and valuable 

 collections, which have been entrusted to the custody of the Museum 

 by Mr. H. J. Heinz. Cabinets of appropriate form, constructed so 

 as to secure the best artificial illumination, are being designed in 

 order that a better display of the wonderful ivory-carvings and other 

 artistic objects in these collections may be made. 



One of the notable recent gifts of Mr. Heinz is a large lacquered 



