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to mount a complete skeleton of one of the huge Uintatheres, and 

 to illustrate more fully early stages in the evolution of the Horse, 

 the Camel, the Tapir and other animals. Mr. Bamum Brown is 

 at work in the Cretaceous beds of South Dakota and Montana, 

 from which he has obtained in the past three years excellent 

 specimens of Carnivorous and Homed Dinosaurs, Plesiosaurs, 

 Mosasaurs and other extinct groups of reptiles. Last year Mr. 

 Brown obtained rich and varied fossil fauna of Pleistocene age 

 from caves and fissures in northern Arkansas. This season he 

 will continue these investigations in the hope of obtaining addi- 

 tional new material. He will also make prospecting trips, in 

 several promising localities, for fossil mammals and repiiles. 

 Mr. Albert Thomson will search in the Big Badlands of South 

 Dakota, especially for the little known Lower Oligocene stages 

 of evolution of the Horses, Tapirs, Rhinoceroses and other animals 

 of that epoch. 



A NEW case of much interest, containing the skeletons of the 

 Horse and Man, has been placed in the Evolution of the Horse 

 Alcove in the Fossil Mammal Hall. This exhibit, the gift of the 

 late W. C. Whitney, is designed to illustrate the latest stage in 

 the development of the Horse and the close association of the 

 animal with man. The study represents the horse as rearing to 

 his full height, the man running beside him and controlling him 

 with a halter. It is faithfully worked out from instantaneous 

 W, photographs, and is suggestive of the breaking and training of 

 the Horse by Man. It likewise illustrates the resemblances and 

 differences in the two skeletons. Their nearly similar position 

 makes it easy to compare corresponding parts, and to see the 

 original identity in plan and structure, and the changes that have 

 been brought about in adaptation to different modes of motion 

 and habits of life in the horse and in man. The skeletons were 

 prepared and mounted by Mr. S. H. Chubb, and are quite ex- 

 ceptional in the design and finish of the mountings as well as in 

 the scientific accuracy of the poses. 



The Museum's collection of Auduboniana was enriched in 

 May by the acquisition of an unpublished painting by the great 



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