MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 189 
A recent addition to the Dinosaur Hall is a skeleton of Cryptocleidus 
oxoniensis, a Plesiosaur from the Oxford Clays of Peterborough, England, 
dating from the Upper Jurassic. This specimen was obtained by exchange 
from the British Museum and is unusually complete, the principal restored 
parts, carefully modelled from other well-preserved skeletons, being the 
head and the outer ends of the paddles. 
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Proressor C. E. A. Wixstow, Curator of the Department of Public 
Health, delivered a paper, “ Waste of Life Capital in American Industries,” 
at the summer conference of Mayors, Schenectady, convened to discuss 
municipal health problems. 
Proressor Henry E. Crampton sailed from Naples September 9 after 
a summer spent in touring through Europe. During his travels he visited 
the principal European museums, noting methods of exhibition, and study- 
ing the collections of terrestrial snails. In August he attended the session 
of the International Congress at Gratz, reading there a paper covering his 
investigations on land snails made in four journeys to the islands of the 
South Pacific. 
SincE March of the present year, Mr. Roy C. Andrews of the Museum 
staff has been studying and collecting the Cetaceans taken at the whaling 
stations on the west coast of Japan. To date he has secured skeletons of 
whales according to the following list: finback more than 69 feet long, 
humpback 47 feet long, sperm 60 feet long, sulphurbottom 78 feet long, 
and two kill whales 22 and 28 feet respectively. In addition, he has pro- 
cured a number of skeletons of several species of porpoises. These skele- 
tons, four of which have already made the long journey to the Museum, 
were presented to the Museum by the Oriental Whaling Company of Japan. 
At the various stations Mr. Andrews has been received with the utmost 
courtesy by the Japanese and every facility has been extended to him for 
carrying on the work. A detailed report of his work will appear in a later 
number of the Journal. 
Mr. ALANSON SKINNER of the Department of Anthropology has made 
two field excursions this summer. The first was to the Menomini Indians 
residing on their reservation in northern Wisconsin. From these people, 
Mr. Skinner obtained an exhaustive collection. He was especially success- 
ful in being able to secure some very important religious objects including 
five medicine bundles. The second expedition was to the Seminole Indians 
dwelling in the Big Cypress and the Everglades of Florida. On this trip 
also, a large collection was made, and will shortly be placed on exhibition 
in the Museum. 
