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N. C, in the egg by a negro who had discovered them in the 

 nest. Hearing a peep from one of the eggs, Mr. Brimley placed 

 them in a warm place, where they soon hatched. The young 

 were then kept alive tuitil they were twenty-four ho^irs old, when 

 they were preserved and subsequently mounted by Mr. H. C. 

 Denslow of the Museum's Department of Preparation. 



A FINE series of fossils from the Cretaceous chalk strata of 

 western Kansas has been purchased for the Museum from the 

 veteran collector, Chas. H. Sternberg. It includes a Mosasaur, 

 or Great Marine Lizard skull with part of the skeleton, of the 

 largest size and in splendid preservation, a complete fossil fish 

 about twelve feet long, and a number of other valuable speci- 

 mens. 



Mr. J. H. Batty, who is collecting birds and mammals for 

 the Museum in the mountains of northern Mexico, writes that 

 about twenty wolves raided his camp at night recently, badly 

 woimding his dogs and damaging some freshly prepared deer 

 skins. The incident, however, resulted in the addition of three 

 wolves to Mr. Batty's collection! 



The Department of Public Instruction has secured from Mr. 

 A. J. Campbell of Melbourne, Australia, twenty-two negatives 

 of the nests and eggs of the more characteristic Australian birds, 

 including the King Bird of Paradise and Emeu. 



The New York Academy of Sciences has deposited its valu- 

 able library of about 10,000 volumes in the Museum. It is 

 especially rich in the publications of foreign societies, a branch 

 of scientific literature before but poorly represented in the 

 Museum's library. 



General J. Watts de Peyster has donated to the Museum 

 some 250 volumes on general natural history, none of which were 

 before contained in its library. 



Mr. George F. Kunz has been appointed Honorary Curator 

 of Gems. 



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