470 ANNALS OF THE CaRNEGIE MuSEUiM. 



of a skeleton of a Brontosaurus and the remains of some smaller 

 Dinosaurs. 



Through the kindness of the heirs of the late Mr Charles S. Spang, 

 the Museum has received the collections of Etruscan pottery and of 

 Egyptian antitjuities, which were formed by him a number of years 

 ago. The P^truscan collection is particularly interesting and valuable. 

 It was obtained by Mr. Spang as the result of excavations, the ex]:)ense 

 of which was defrayed by him. It contains a large number of j^ieces 

 of Etruscan pottery in a beautiful state of preservation. With these 

 collections the Museum received a number of books relating to archaeol- 

 ogy and mineralogy. Mr. Norman Spang, Esq., has dejiosited with 

 the Carnegie Museum his private collection of archaeological specimens, 

 which has been very carefully made and illustrates the stone imple- 

 ments of the North American tribes, together with similar artifacts 

 of the primitive races of Europe and Australasia. 



Dr. a. E. Ortmann is preparing, and hopes shortly to publish in 

 the Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum, an elaborate monograph upon 

 the crawfishes of Pennsylvania, for the preparation of which he has 

 secured a large quantity of most interesting material. He has thor- 

 oughly explored the State, and his paper will have value, not merely 

 from the standpoint of the systematist, but from that of the student of 

 geographical distribution. 



His Excellency, Governor Teodoro Dehesa, of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 

 who is well known as a student of Mexican archaeology, was some years 

 ago unfortunately robbed. In some manner a fine idol of ancient 

 Mexican origin, which had attracted much attention, and was regarded' 

 as particularly interesting, was taken from his collection, and, after 

 passing through many hands, was purchased by the Director of the Car- 

 negie Museum. When its resting-place was finally made known to 

 the Governor, a correspondence ensued, and an offer was made to 

 restore the specimen, but his Excellency with the most • engaging 

 courtesy has requested the authorities of the Museum to accept it as a 

 gift. Reproductions of this interesting object in facsimile have re- 

 cently been made, and the Museum is prepared to exchange a limited 

 number of these reproductions with other institutions. 



