THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



the Museum collections. The smaller mammals and birds ob- 

 tained by the expedition will be of special value to the ]\Iuseum, 

 since the more northern parts of the Continent are thus far very 

 poorly represented here as regards the mammals and birds. 



The season of 1901 was spent partly on the Kenai Peninsula 

 and partly on Kadiak Island and the adjoining mainland of 

 Alaska. ]\Ir. Stone's assistants were Mr. J. D. Figgins of the 

 American Museum and Mr. Maynard of Seattle, Washington. 

 The collections comprise about forty large mammals, including 

 good series of Caribou, Mountain Sheep and Moose, and of several 

 species of Bear, besides several hundred small mammals and 

 a large collection of birds 



NEWS NOTES. 



The collections of the Department of Vertebrate Palaeon- 

 tology were enriched in January by the receipt of an excellent 

 skull of the Woolly Rhinoceros {Kliinoceros tichorhinus) from the 

 Pleistocene deposits of Russia. This specimen has come through 

 Professor Alexis Pavlow and Madame Marie Pavlow of the Uni- 

 versity of Moscow, in exchange for material from the western 

 United States, and will soon be placed on exhibition. 



The skeleton of IchtJiyosanrns qiiadriscissiis which was 

 noticed at length in the Journal for October, 1901, has been 

 further worked out of its rocky matrix, re-set and soon will be 

 mounted in the corridor over the great Mosasaur skeleton. 



The attention of visitors is called to the series of water- 

 colors by a\Ir. Charles R. Knight, showing the different forms of 

 the modern Zebra, and displayed in connection with the series 

 illustrating the evolution of the Horse. 



The Department of Anthropology has received from J. D. 

 Crimmins, Esq., the gift of a series of fifteen native Filipino 

 hats. These were collected by his son, Lieut. Martin L. Crim- 

 mins, Sixth Infantry, U. S. A., who is now stationed on the 

 Island of Pane, Philippine Islands. 



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