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Blanco, Texas. The only portions visible at first were a few 

 small pieces of the scutes or scales that had been washed away 

 and lay uncovered at the bottom of the little ravine, below 

 where the main part of the skeleton still reposed in its original 

 bed or matrix, but so completely hidden by the loose material 

 and bunches of grass that covered the hill-side that it was only 

 by diligent search that it was discovered. 



This queer animal belonged to a family of Edentates allied 

 to the living armadillos. It was, however, much larger than 

 the armadillo and differed from that animal in having a per- 

 fectly rigid armor or shell. The armadillo has the plates of its 

 armor fastened together in certain places in a manner to make 

 them slightly movable one upon the other, enabling the animal 

 to curl up in his shell, somewhat after the manner of a porcu- 

 pine. The carapace of this Glyptodont from Texas is about four 

 feet long, and the tail-piece is about two and one-half feet in 

 length, hence the total length of the animal in life, from the 

 point of the nose to the tip of the tail, must have been between 

 seven and seven and one-half feet. 



This unique specimen is of particular scientific interest, since 

 it is the first one of this extinct family, sufficiently well preserved 

 to show any of its characters, found so far north in this country. 

 Remains of species of Glyptodonts are very abundant in South 

 America. 



J. W. GiDLEY. 



THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS. 



]T the twelfth International Congress of American- 

 ists held in connection with the Universal Expo- 

 sition at Paris in 1900, it was voted to accept 

 the invitation of Mr. Morris K. Jesup to hold the 

 thirteenth congress of the association in the halls 

 of the American Museum from the 20th to the 25th of October 

 next. Last November, Mr. Jesup, as president of the commision 

 of organization of the meeting, issued an invitation to all the 

 Americanists in the world to join the congress, the object of the 



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