76 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
archeological specimens, mostly from the region between The 
Dalles and the mouth of the Willamette River. There were 
fifty-six specimens, comprising implements and other objects in 
carved stone of several kinds. Such sculptures are rare so far 
north in America, while several of them are quite unique and 
are new to archeologists. This loan has enabled the Museum 
practically to complete its data regarding known specimens 
from this archeological province. 
On February 17 the new Dinosaur Hall of the Department 
of Vertebrate Paleontology was opened to the public. The 
principal object in this hall is the great skeleton of Brontosaurus, 
an enormous herbivorous animal distantly related to the lizards. 
A detailed description of this specimen, the only exhibit of its 
kind in the world, is given in another part of the present issue 
of the JourNaL. The other great families of dinosaurs (the 
Carnivorous, the Horned, the Armored and the Spoon-billed) 
will all be represented in this hall. On the south side of the 
room have been installed several magnificent specimens of 
fossil turtles and tortoises from the Cretaceous beds of the 
West. The specimens for the Dinosaur Hall have been derived 
from the collections made by the Museum field expeditions from 
1897-1904, which have been presented by the Trustees, and 
the E. D. Cope Collection of Reptiles, Amphibians and Fishes, 
which was presented to the Museum in 1902 by President Jesup. 
The Tower Room has been set aside for the reception of the 
collection of fossil fishes which is now in process of installation. 
The principal portions of this collection are the famous New- 
berry Collection deposited with the Museum by Columbia 
University: the Cope Collection presented by President Jesup, 
and an extensive series from Syria. 
Over the arch leading into the Morgan Hall of Mineralogy, 
the Department of Vertebrate Palzontology has installed the 
giant fish known as Portheus from the American Mediterranean 
Sea of the Cretaceous period. 
THERE has recently been placed on exhibition in the Hall of 
Fossil Mammals a representative series of the remarkably rich 
