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clavatum and L. complanatum should be so ex- 
tended as to include Iowa, as shown by Profes- 
sor Shimek’s recent list of Iowa Pteridophyta. 
CHARLES E. BESSEY. 
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. 
MUSEUM NOTES. 
PUBLICATIONS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 
WiIrdi the issue of No. 1 of the Annals of the 
Carnegie Museum, this rapidly growing institu- 
tion enters upon its career as a museum of 
publication ; the publications are to appear as 
Annals and Memoirs, the first in octavo form, 
the second in quarto, and they are to be pub- 
lished from time to time as material is pro- 
vided. In the ‘Museum Notes,’ with which 
this number of the Annals begins, it is stated 
that the Museum is to re-open the quarry at 
Como, Wyoming, where Professor Marsh ob- 
tained a number of his best specimens, includ- 
ing a number of skulls of Dinosaurs. The first 
systematic paper is by H. B. Williamson, on 
‘The Crayfish of Allegheny County, Pa.,’ and 
describes six species. John A. Shafer gives a 
‘Preliminary List of the Vascular Flora of 
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania,’ stating that 
it is issued largely as an incentive to others to 
participate in the preparation of a fuller, more 
complete catalogue. While the order of ar- 
rangement is that of Gray’s Manual, the author 
states that this is selected merely as a matter 
of convenience and that he is fully in accord 
with the nomenclature of the most recent 
authors. The data on which the species are 
admitted to the list are indicated by means of 
signs, J. B. Hatcher notes ‘Some New and 
little known Fossil Vertebrates,’ showing that 
Platacodon nanus is unmistakably a fish and 
describing the character of the dermal cover- 
ing of Olaosaurus. Of special interest is a 
description of the principal characters of a 
primitive rhinoceros, Trigonias osborni, of 
which Mr. Hatcher was so fortunate as to se- 
cure an almost complete example, the species 
having been founded on the anterior part of 
the upper jaw and aramus of the lower jaw. 
The dentition was noted as of a primitive type 
since three incisors and a canine were present 
on either side of the upper jaw. The rest of 
SCIENCE. 
[N.S. Vou. XIII. No. 334. 
the skeleton agrees with this, the superior 
molars being simple in their structure, while 
there are four digits in the forefoot. D. A. 
Atkinson gives a list of ‘The Reptiles of 
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania,’ prefacing 
the paper with the remark that civilization 
means the destruction of a certain portion of 
the natural fauna of a region and that many 
species now rare in Allegheny County must 
have formerly been abundant, while two 
species have been exterminated within the last 
forty years, these being the prairie and the 
mountain rattlesnakes. In all, thirty-four spe- 
cies of reptiles are recorded. The concluding 
paper of the part is by R. W. Shufeldt on the 
“Osteology of the Herodiones,’ and contains a 
detailed description of the native genera of the 
group and with some foreign forms. 
THE FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. 
THE Annual Report of the Director of the Field 
Columbian Museum for 18991900 shows a 
marked increase of the collections in the line 
of anthropology, mainly in the way of material 
collected from the Hopi Indians and from the 
western States, through expeditions sent out. 
In botany is noted the accession of the Patter- 
son herbarium of 30,000 North American plants, 
and a series ofa thousand specimens from Cali- 
fornia and Colorado. A special form of herba- 
rium case is described and figured which is said 
to combine freedom of access with security from 
insects and the exclusion of dust. Good prog- 
ress has been made in cataloguing and labeling 
and a large number of books and pamphlets 
have been added to the library, making the 
present total somewhat over 24,000 titles. 
Two courses of eight lectures each were given 
during the year. The total number of visitors 
is not stated, but we are told that there was an 
increase of 42,595 over the previous year. The 
frontispiece of the report is an excellent portrait 
of the late George M. Pullman, and there are a 
number of full-page plates showing some of 
the ethnological and anthropological exhibits, 
among them two of Mr. Akeley’s fine groups of 
African antelopes. 
THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. 
Parts IY. and Y. of the Annals of the South 
African Musewm are to hand, the former con- 
