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which the American Museum has secured its extensive and almost 
unique series of remains of Diplodocus, Brontosaurus and other gigan- 
tic reptiles which flourished in the shallow lakes and marshes that 
characterized the eastern portion of a part of the Rocky Mountain 
region in Jurassic time, some eight millions of years ago. ‘This is the 
first skeleton of its kind to be sent to Europe, and the gift is made in 
the hope that it may be instrumental in bringing the museums of both 
continents into closer relationships and that it may foster the kindly 
feeling now existing between the German and American peoples. 
The Senckenberg Museum will be formally dedicated October 13 
with elaborate ceremonies under the patronage of the Emperor and 
Empress of Germany. The American Museum will be represented 
on the occasion by Director Bumpus. 
THE ROBLEY COLLECTIONS OF MAORI HEADS. 
a) L HE Department of Ethnology is particularly fortunate in 
ra. WEA having secured last May the remarkable and _practi- 
cally unique collection of tattooed heads of ancient 
Maoris which Major General G. Robley of the Brit- 
ish Army spent many years in assembling at infinite 
pains and great expense in New Zealand and from 
other authentic sources. These heads, thirty five in number, illustrate 
all the different styles of the art of tattooing as practised among the 
Maoris prior to the year 1831. At that time the British government 
forbade further tattooing, because the high value set on the heads 
by souvenir hunters led to the commission of many murders. A full 
description of the series of heads and of the outfit of ancient tattooing 
tools received therewith is reserved for later publication. 
MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 
THe great meteorite known as Ahnighito which Commander R. E. 
Peary, U. S. N., secured in the summer of 1897 on the shores of Cape 
York in northern Greenland was transferred in August from the posi- 
tion which it has occupied for about two years under the arch at the 
entrance to the Museum to its permanent abiding place in the Foyer. 
