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ornaments of the Hindoo dancing girls arc distributed westward 

 from oriental countries into North Africa and even into Europe. 

 It is also probable that the elaborate leg-rings and other orna- 

 ments of the Central and South African natives are in some way 

 connected with those of India. Silver work found its way also 

 into the regions occupied by the unciviHzed peoples of Siberia, 

 specimens of which are well represented in the collections of the 

 Jesup North Pacific Expedition. c. w. 



THE JOHN COLLINS WARREN COLLECTION. 



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RELIMINARY announcement may be made of a 

 very important acquisition which has come to 

 the Museum and especially to the Department 

 of Vertebrate Palaeontology through the gener- 

 osity of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. It is that of 

 the John Collins Warren Collection which for many years has 

 been behind closed doors in the Warren Museum of Natural 

 History in Boston. The collection is particularly valuable on 

 account of the skeleton of the famous "Warren Mastodon" 

 which it contains. This was dug out of a swamp near Newburg, 

 N. Y., in the extremely dry summer of 1845. It was put together 

 and exhibited about the country until 1847, when it was .pur- 

 chased by Professor Warren, who was then president of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, and who was one of the leading natur- 

 alists of his day. 



The skeleton was practically complete when found, the only 

 parts missing being a few of the vertebra of the tail, and a few 

 bones of the tips of the toes. It is in equally perfect condition 

 to-day except the tusks, which were injured when the animal was 

 taken out. Fortunately the extremities and portions of the bases 

 of the tusks are still preserved. What is most striking in the 

 skeleton, as Professor Thomas Dwight, grandson of Professor 

 Warren, observes in a recent article, "is not only its great 

 height, some twelve feet, but its great breadth." Besides this 

 magnificent specimen, which is the most perfect and the best 

 ever found, the Warren Collection includes the fine skull of another 

 mastodon, known as the "Shawangunk Head," parts of a third 



