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the hall a school of porpoises is similarly installed. The models were 

 prepared at the Museum from casts, drawings and photographs of actual 

 specimens, and the frieze was painted by ]Mr. Albert Operti. 



President Osborn attended the Darwin IVIemorial exercises at 

 Christ College, Cambridge, during the latter part of June and was the 

 spokesman of the scientists and scientific institutions of America in 

 giving to the University of Cambridge a replica of the Couper bust of 

 Darwin that w^as donated to the Museum last February by the New 

 York Academy of Sciences. 



The series of paintings illustrating the North Polar regions which 

 has been made by the artist, Mr. F. A. Stokes, has been completed and 

 forms the background of the entire Eskimo exhibit at the northern end 

 of the north hall of the groimd floor. These paintings will be made the 

 subject of a special illustrated article in an early number of the Journal. 



Professor Bashford Dean, Curator of Ichthyology and Herpetol- 

 ogy, spent the months of June and July in Europe, where he visited the 

 museums of Paris and London. Professor Dean has recently been 

 made a Correspondent of the Natural History ]\Iuseum of Paris. 



A restoration of the jaws of the great shark Carcharodon angiisii- 

 dcns which inhabited the waters of the American Atlantic Ocean during 

 Eocene Tertiary time has been prepared under the direction of Professor 

 Dean and mounted at the entrance to the fossil fish alcove at the south- 

 east corner of the fourth floor. This restoration, which is 8 feet, 10 

 inches across and has a spread of 5 feet, 8 inches, gives one a striking 

 idea of the enormous size and fierce aspect wdiich these ancient sharks 

 must have possessed. 



Mr. R. C. Andrews of the Department of Mammalogy left New York 

 on August 25 for ^Manila to join the U. S. Fish Commission ship "Al- 

 batross" for a cruise of eight or ten months in the Pacific Ocean, particu- 

 larly among the islands along the western border from Borneo to central 

 Japan. ]\Ir. Andrews goes under an appointment by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission. 



Professor Henry E. Crampton, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology, 



