4 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Professor Ortmann has been conducting extensive inquiries into 

 the geographical distribution of the fresh water Crustacea of the upper 

 Ohio Valley. He reports a number of interesting discoveries, and has 

 decided that one species found in the region is new to science. 



Mr. C. V. HartiMan is laboring diligently upon the preparation 

 of his report upon his Costa Rican explorations. The results will be 

 published in the Memoirs of the Museum. 



Mr. O. E. Jennings has made a large number of excursions to 

 various points of interest in the western half of the Commonwealth 

 for the purpose of collecting the ])lants of counties which hitherto 

 have been but partially explored by the botanists of the Museum. 

 The result has been the acquisition of a large quantity of valuable 

 material and the discovery of one or two species which are regarded 

 as possibly new to science. 



Mr. D. R. Sumstine, who is carrying on his work among the fungi, 

 also reports several new species. 



Very appreciative accounts of the work of the Carnegie Museum 

 have recently appeared in the Museums Journal, the organ of the 

 Museums Association of Great Britain, and in an account published 

 by Mr. A. B. Meyer of the Royal Museum at Dresden. Professor 

 Meyer dwells at length upon the method of interesting the children 

 of the schools in Museum work through the agency of "The Prize 

 Essay Contest." He had before him as the time he wrote the Report 

 of 1902. Referring to the essay on Bird Life, to which was awarded 

 the first prize in that year, he says that it is '^ beso/uiers /i/i/>sch'''' — 

 particularly pretty. A still more complete and appreciative review 

 of the work of the Carnegie Museum from the graceful pen of Dr. 

 Hector Leborne, of Brussels, has appeared in one of the Belgian 

 magazines, and has been widely circulated in that country. 



Appreciative tributes to the memory of the late Professor J. B. 

 Hatcher have been published in a number of the scientific journals, 

 and his loss is universally deplored as a great blow to the science of 

 paleontology. 



