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Among the most valuable prizes secured by last year's successful fossil 

 expeditions were three skeletons of the gigantic and extraordinary " clawed 

 ungulate" Mow pus, a huge animal combining the proportions of a horse 

 and a rhinoceros and with large curved claws on fore and hind feet. These 

 skeletons were found by Mr. Albert Thomson in the great fossil quarry at 

 Agate, Nebraska. This year Mr. Thomson continued work in the quarry 

 hoping to find certain missing parts of the skeletons. Judging from his 

 reports he has not only succeeded in finding most of the missing parts, but 

 has discovered two or more additional skeletons equal to the best of those 

 we had before. The Museum is now assured of the materials for a group of 

 complete and finely preserved skeletons of this remarkable extinct animal. 



MUSEUM NOTES 



Since the last issue of the Journal the following persons have been elected to 

 membership in the Museum: 



Fellow, Mr. Paul Griswold Howes; 



Honorary Fellow, Dr. Leonard C. Sanford; 



Sustaining Member, Mrs. Emily N. Huyck; 



Annual Members, Mrs. Joseph J. Corn, Mrs. William C. Dickerman, Mrs. 

 J. R. Simon, Miss Alice A. Delamar, Rev. Charles L. Goodell, Dr. Louis C. 

 LeRoy, Dr. James Franklin Nagle and Messrs. Paul Armstrong, Edward D. 

 Bettens, V. Forbin, Ferdinand Hansen, M. Lederman, Oscar Lowenstein, 

 B. Frank Mebane, William Stubner, Francis J. Swayze, Charles Wilson 

 Taintor and A. Willstatter. 



Dr. Robert Broome, the chief authority upon South African palaeontology, is 

 visiting America for a year of scientific research especially upon the ancient verte- 

 brates of the Permian period. He has honored the American Museum by accepting 

 a temporary appointment upon its staff for this purpose, and has brought with him 

 his splendid private collection of South African Permian reptiles, one of the best yet 

 brought together. While slightly surpassed in size by that of the British Museum it 

 rivals that famous collection from a morphological and exhibition point of view. The 

 comparative study of this collection and of the large collections in this Museum from 

 the Permian of Texas and elsewhere, will yield results of great scientific value. 



Prof. H. E. Crampton devoted the summer to the completion of the first volume 

 of reports on the "Evolution and Natural History of the Part ulm of Polynesia." 

 This volume deals with about 24,000 adult snails, representing the fauna of Tahiti 

 and it presents the evidence which demonstrates recent evolutionary changes in the 

 species and varieties of the island. 



Dr. Frank E. Lutz, accompanied by Mr. Charles W. Leng, is in Cuba on an 

 entomological collecting trip. After a period of study in Havana where unusual 

 facilities for work were accorded by Prof. Carlos de la Torre, the expedition estab- 

 lished field headquarters in Pinar del Rio. Dr. Lutz reports results which are 

 valuable not only in extending knowledge of the fauna of Cuba itself, but also in 

 establishing an evolutionary connection of the insects of eastern Cuba with those of 

 southern Florida. Field work will be continued into October. 



