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expedition under Mr. Utterback in Montana has recovered two fine 

 skulls of Triceratops. 



Hk;hlv appreciative comments upon Mr. W. E. C. Todd's pa{)er 

 upon the Birds of Erie and Presque Isle, recently published in the 

 Annals have been received from many quarters. It is hoped, that, 

 as one of the results of the agitation begun by Mr. Todd and the 

 authorities of the Carnegie Museum, the wholesale slaughter of birds 

 at Erie, Pa., may hereafter, to some extent at least, be checked. 



The Anthony collection of birds has been unpacked and is gradu- 

 ally being arranged. The purchase of this collection, as has already 

 been noted, adds about ten thousand specimens to the collection of 

 birds in the Carnegie Museum. 



Nothing more absurdly false than the report of the Secretary of 

 the Pennsylvania Game Commission to that body, made on July 7, 

 could be imagined. In his report he attacks the authorities of the 

 Carnegie Museum, asserting that they have been guilty of wanton 

 and excessive destruction of bird life within the limits of the Com- 

 monwealth. The Secretary failed entirely to make a proper investiga- 

 tion, declining to avail himself of the opportunities which were 

 freely accorded him to do so, asserting his belief in the entire integrity 

 of the management of the Museum. He then turned around and 

 wrote his report, which is a tissue of misstatements from beginning to 

 end, and gave it to the newspapers for publication. The allegation 

 made by Joseph Berrier, game warden, that the ornithologists of this 

 Museum had taken forty thousand birds within the limits of the 

 Commonwealth, and the allegation of Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, that he 

 had been informed by Mr. Todd that they had killed twenty-three 

 thousand birds, are utterly untrue. As an actual fact at the time Mr. 

 Kalbfus made his pretended investigation the whole number of North 

 American birds contained in the Museum which could by any con- 

 struction be attributed to the soil of Pennsylvania, was only three 

 thousand three hundred and seventy-three specimens, of which total 

 number sixteen hundred and eighty-three are birds collected during 

 the last nine years by the ornithologists of the Museum within the 

 limits of the Commonwealth, the remainder being specimens donated 



