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nickel and are known as taenite, the metal filling in the spaces 

 between the plates is known as plessite and is scanty in this 

 meteorite. Troilite shows abundantly in the section as well as 

 in the surface of the main mass. Schreibersite, the brilliant 

 meteoritic phosphide of iron and nickel, is not in evidence to the 

 unaided eye. 



Two analyses of Willamette have been made for Professor 

 Ward and are here quoted: 



J. M. Davison. J. E. Whitfield. 



99-83 



The specific gravity is 7.7. 



Edmund Otis Hovey. 



THE EAST MAMMAL HALL. 



IHE East Mammal Hall (No. 207 of the Second 

 Floor) , leading out of the Hall of North American 

 Mammals, has been opened to the public within 

 a few weeks. The center of the room is occupied 

 by a nobl^ group representing five Olympic Elk 

 beside a spring in the mountains. These are some of the latest 

 productions of the Department of Taxidermy and are displayed 

 without glass covering, for the purpose of avoiding the reflections 

 due to great expanses of glass. The animals were collected in the 

 Olympia Mountains of Washington. Other noteworthy mammal 

 groups in this hall are those of the Musk Ox and the Caribou 

 from the Stone Expeditions to Alaska and the Prong-horned 

 Antelope. A small group consisting of a pair of the California 

 Mule Deer from Lower California shows this graceful animal in 

 pleasing attitudes. A single specimen of the Alaska Brown Bear, 

 which was collected by Mr. Stone, illustrates one of the largest 

 members of this family of beasts. 



The southern side of the hall is devoted to reptiles and here 

 will be found many single specimens and the groups representing 



