Ml si:rM .\i:\\s .xori'.s 2'.) 



tics, at Turners l-'alls mi tlic ( Oiiiicct iciil , near I'ooiitoii ami elsewhere in 

 New .lersey. Hut of tiie animals wliicli made llioe tootpi-ints only two or 

 tlu-ee partial skelet()n> ol' >mall sp<'(ies liaxc e\cr come to liulit. 



Tliis animal i)r()lialily li\c(l amoiiii the hills and \alleys where now New 

 \ Oi'k ( ity stands. He was one of the lords of ei-eation in his time - some 

 ten million years ago, for the dinosam-s were the dominant land animals 

 then and lonu' after until the higher (piadrnpeds a])|)eaicd. He was not 

 indeed the "oldest inha'i)itant ," for many a ra<-e of animals had lixcd and 

 died iiefore his lime, and no douht lhe> li\cd on what is now Manhattan 

 Island as well as elsewhere, hut he is the oldest whose mortal I'emaiiis lia\e 

 aetually heeii presei-\ cd to our day. ( Ould he ha\c arisen from his mauso- 

 leum in tlu' rocks at h'orl l.ee, lie might ha\(' supplied us with a rather 

 .startling xohune of " Keeollectioiis of Early New \'ork." For in his time 

 there were no Palisades, and from the eastern hank of what is now the 

 Hudson River one might look across a broad estuary to the west and south- 

 west, while the Kast Hi\cr and Long Island, as far as we know, were not 

 \-et in existence. 



MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 



SlxCK our last isstic the following persons haxc heen cIccTcd to mcmhcr- 

 ship in the Museum : 



Pittron, Mr. Hexry C. Fi{I( k; 



Life Mniibrr,s, Messrs. Lai^z A.xdersox, CiEokcI'; F. Baker, Jr., 

 Lynford Riddle, W. Lymax Hiddle, J. Ixslev Hi.mh, .Vxdkfw ("arxegie, 

 Richard M. ("oegate, Marcellus Hxrtli.y Dodcje. Johx Sherm.\x 

 HoYT, Richard S. Hi ngerford, William Adams Kissam, Ed\vard deP. 

 LivixGSTOXE, George Graxt Masox, Johx G. M( CrLLorGii, Moses 

 Charles Migel, George B. Po.st, Jr., Hnxin H. Rcxikrs, S(nt ylek 

 S( iiikffelix, H. M. Tii.ford, and Hexry Walters. Mi{. and Mrs. Pail 

 M. Warhirg, Dk. CKoiuiE T. Howlaxd and Mmes. .\xxe W. Pexfield, 

 1-"klix M. ^VAHH^K(; and William Sf.w ai{1) \Vkhi5; 



Susfdiniin/ Miniliir.s. Messks. -Ia.MEs AFvkw k K ami Fredfhic S. Wki.I.s 

 and Mrs. Bexjamix Brewster; 



Ainillfll Mriiihcrs, Mfss1{S. J. J. .VLMHKiHT, .\. ClIEsrEK BfaTTV, 



William Adams Browx, Chahles di Poxt (Oi DFirr, Charles Cirie. 

 Ik., Bryax Daigherty, Melville Ivjlestox, Wilmam Farxsworth. 

 loiix \V. (iAKKFir, RoBFirr (takketi-, Rissell Hoi'kix.s. .Vhthi h Ixgra- 

 iiA.M, NoKMAX Iamks, Fmohv S. Fvox, \\'i i.li AM G. MviiiFK, PmlMortox, 

 Hexry 1". di Poxt, ( Ohx flu .-> \'\x XOksi Pou i;i;>, William Sproulf, 



