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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
‘T stayed behind in the hope of securing, if possible, near Nassau a 
specimen of Madrepore like the huge ones that we had found on the 
outer margin of the Andros reef, but which there baffled all our efforts 
at collecting. Captain J. Slocum, who some years ago became known 
through sailing alone around the world in his fifteen-ton yawl, the 
‘Spray,’ was fortunately in Nassau at the time with this boat. His co- 
operation was secured, and in a few days a specimen of the desired 
kind was found. 
“Several days of hard work with crowbars and spars were needed 
to dislodge the mass from the reef, but then it was easily floated by 
means of empty casks onto the beach at high tide. After a preliminary 
cleaning it was crated and hoisted on board the ‘Spray,’ and was 
landed at West 79th Street pier two weeks later. I returned by way of 
Nassau to New York.” 
The series of Bahaman sponges, echinoderms, annelids and mollusks 
brought back by this expedition constitutes a substantial addition to 
the collections of the Department of Invertebrate Zodlogy. From the 
material several small groups will be prepared, but the major portion 
of the corals will, as soon as practicable, be assembled in the form of a 
large group to exhibit in a somewhat condensed form the character of a 
typical West Indian coral reef. 
MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 
R. W. D. MATTHEW, Associate Curator of Vertebrate Palzeon- 
tology, returned from the field in August with a gratifying report 
of the work accomplished during the summer. ‘The investiga- 
tions of his party were confined mainly to the Miocene beds of Sioux 
County, Nebraska. Much interesting material was collected from the 
Lower Miocene in the vicinity of Agate, while farther south, Dr. Matthew 
and Mr. Harold Cook, who accompanied him, discovered two new fossil- 
bearing levels from which were obtained collections particularly rich 
in fossil remains of the Horse. Several incomplete skeletons of the 
Middle Miocene horses have been secured, together with abundant 
fragmentary material from a higher level, which may prove to represent 
a new and large fauna that hitherto has been very little known. 
