ANNALS 



OF THE 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



VOLUME IIL NO. 4. 



Editorial Notes. 



The Director of the Museum recalls with great pleasure his recent 

 visit to Scotland and England, during which he had the pleasure of 

 learning much in reference to the work at present being carried on by 

 his friends, Professor William Carmichael Mcintosh, the Director of 

 the Gatty Marine Laboratory, at St. Andrews, Scotland, and Prpfes- 

 sor D'Arcy W. Thompson, of Dund'ee, whose acute and valuable in- 

 vestigations of the marine life of the British seas have won for them very 

 wide recognition among scientific men. During a brief stay in Lon- 

 don, acquaintance with many scientific men was renewed, and much 

 valuable information, especially in relation to the administrative details 

 of museum work, was obtained. 



The various expeditions sent into the western country have returned 

 and report most encouraging success. 



Mr. O. A. Peterson, who was engaged in making investigations in 

 the Miocene deposits of Western Nebraska, collected, and has brought 

 to the Museum, a large amount of very valuable material. Mr. Karl 

 Douglass and Mr. Percy E. Raymond, who sj^ent the summer and fall in 

 Montana, succeeded, the former in (-ollecting many vertebrate fossils, 

 and the latter in collecting a large number of invertel)rates, and in study- 

 ing the relations which the Ordivician of the west bears to that of the 

 eastern portion of the United States, ^^r. W. H. Utterback, while 

 in northern Wyoming, succeeded in recovering a considerable portion 



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