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thorough illustration of this difficult group. We are with pleasant an- 

 ticipation awaiting the time when the remaining sections of Mr. God- 

 man's intended gift shall come into our possession, and the work of 

 systematically arranging the lepidoptera of the two Americas can be 

 undertaken at the Carnegie Museum. 



The collection of birds belonging to Sir Walter L. Ruller, 

 K.C.M.G., F.R.S., the distinguished author of the "History of the 

 Birds of New Zealand," has Ijeen acquired by the Carnegie Museum. 

 A number of the species re])resented in this collection are known 

 already to be extinct, and others are rapidly verging upon extinction. 

 Such a collection as this will never again be made. Gould's birds of 

 Australia are in the possession of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia ; Buller's birds of New Zealand are now the property 

 of the Museum in Pittsburgh. It is a rather singular coincidence that 

 these two great collections from the antipodes should both have found 

 a final resting place upon the soil of Pennsylvania. 



The Trustees of the British Museum with great kindness have 

 authorized the presentation to the Carnegie Museum of a number of 

 important restorations of original material in their possession, which 

 will add very much to the interest of the paleontological collections 

 of the Carnegie Museum. 



From Mr. Alfred N. Leeds of Peterborough, England, we have 

 purchased a skull of Rhinoceros autiquitatis found by him in a gravel 

 pit. The skull is in a remarkably perfect state of preservation. There 

 was a time in England when the rhinoceros and the hyena were as 

 common in that country as until recently they were in the vicinity of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. 



Three parties from the Museum are at present making paleon- 

 tological explorations in the West. Mr. O. A. Peterson assisted by 

 Mr. Olcott and Dr. Hermann are at work in Sioux county, Nebraska, 

 and report encouraging progress. Mr. W. H. Utterback is at work 

 in the Jurassic of Wyoming and has been quite successful in securing 

 valuable material. Mr. Earl Douglass and Mr. Percy E. Raymond 

 are systematically making explorations in Montana. 



Mr. HtiGo Kahl accompanied by Mr. Klages have been engaged 

 for some time in making entomological collections in the vicinity of 

 Ohio Pvle. 



