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uralist, and which is now in the British Museum. e present collec- 
g-shells described by Prof. Owen in the Zoological Transactions. 
from a bed of marl and volcanic sand. The other series is from a 
tertiary deposit, on the coast of the south island, at a place called 
Waikonaiti. These bones belong principally to the colossal Dinornis, 
the D. giganteus, &c. The gems of this collection are two entire legs 
and feet (that is, the tarso-metatarsal, phalangeal, and ungueal bones) 
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relative position, &c. ‘This collection, for teaching the geology An 
palzontology of the United States, is superior to any other collection 
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Bridges, it is stated that the work was published by the “ Engineer De- 
partment” of government. There are strictly two Engineer Bureaus, 
and that which receives the general title, is the Bureau of the Engineers 
of Fortifications. ‘The other, the Bureau of Topographical Engineers, 
has in charge a series of publications, No. 4 of which is Capt, Cullum’s 
able work. 
