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and one weighing 145 pounds; Long Island, the largest stone 

 meteorite known, by two large and many small fragments ; Forest 

 City, a stone meteorite represented by a 75-pound mass, and Bren- 

 ham, an iron-stone meteorite, represented by two large specimens, 

 one of nickel-iron and the other of iron and stone. Tucson or the 

 Signet Iron is represented by a full-size model in cast iron pre- 

 pared from a model generously given to the Museum by the 

 National Museum. The sections of the earth representing the 

 North Polar and South Polar regions have been removed from 

 the Foyer to the East Corridor where they have been hung 

 upon the wall. 



The Jesup collection of the building stones of North America 

 has been removed to a series of cases in the alcoves of the Hall 

 of Forestry, where the improved conditions of light and installa- 

 tion render the specimens much more attractive than heretofore 

 and more available for study. 



Much progress has been made in the preparation of the 

 models of the flowers, fruit and foliage of all the local native 

 trees to be installed in connection with the Jesup Forestry 

 Collection. When the local species have been represented the 

 series of models will be extended as far as practicable to the other 

 trees in the collection. These reproductions are all prepared 

 direct from natural specimens, and, wherever possible, the natu- 

 ral object itself has been preserved and utilized in the model. 



Professor Bashford Dean, Honorary Curator of Fishes, has 

 gone to Europe for three months, planning to remain most of 

 the time in Germany. Here he will take the opportunity of 

 making exchanges with collectors and museums, and he plans to 

 make a number of purchases of specimens to fill in gaps in the 

 exhibition series of fossil fishes. These purchases are rendered 

 possible by a generous donation by a trustee of the Museum, 

 Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge. Thanks to this fund it is now possible 

 also to carry out a long-cherished plan to augment the collection 

 of fossil fishes from a well-known American locality. To this 

 end the curator's assistant, Mr. Louis Hussakof, aided by a 

 graduate student of Columbia, Mr. Charles S. Mead, will be sent 



