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but contrasted with (a) Giraifa, by its pair of 

 supraorbital or frontal horn-bosses, which in 

 Oiraffa are parietal instead of frontal, and 

 with (b) Helladotherium, in which there are 

 no paired horn-bosses. It is closely related to 

 Samotherium, especially in the presence of 

 these suprafrontal ossicusps (conical bony 

 hQrns). Dr. Forsyth Major, of the British 

 Museum, is making an examination of these 

 rudimentary or possibly vestigial horns in 

 regard to their bearing on the whole question 

 of the origin of horns. H. F. O. 



FIELD WORK IN VERTEBRATE PALEOX- 



TOLOOY AT THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



FOR 1902. 



Through the continued generosity of Mr. 

 Carnegie, the founder of this institution, the 

 Department of Vertebrate Paleontology has 

 been enabled to continue the work of explora- 

 tion in the fossil fields of the West, which was 

 undertaken some three years ago and the 

 prosecution of which has been attended 

 throughout with almost phenomenal success. 



Early in the season the present writer, under 

 whose direction the work has been carried on, 

 planned and organized four parties for ex- 

 ploration. One of these, under Mr. 0. A. 

 Peterson, was sent first into the White Eiver 

 Tertiaries of Sioux County, Neb., and later 

 into the adjacent Laramie deposits of Con- 

 verse County, Wy. In the Wliite Eiver beds 

 the party under Mr. Peterson secured, among 

 other material, five Titanothere skulls, a con- 

 siderable portion of the skeleton of Elothe- 

 rium, and material which it is thought will 

 be sufficient ■ to mount the skeletons of 

 Hyracodon and Hoplophoneus. In the Lara- 

 mie portions of the skulls and skeletons of 

 both Triceratops and Dryptosaurus were 

 secured. 



Mr. C. W. Gilmore was returned to south- 

 ern Wyoming to continue the work com- 

 menced in that region in the season of 1899 

 by Dr. J. L. Wortman, and since carried on 

 with such splendid results by Mr. O. A. Peter- 

 son in 1900 and Mr. Gilmore in 1901. The 

 bone quarries on Sheep Creek were worked 

 until about the middle of the season, when 

 they were abandoned and a new quarry opened 



up in the Freeze Out Mountains. From this, 

 valuable collections, especially of the remains 

 of Morosaurus and some of the carnivorous 

 forms of Jurassic Dinosaurs, were recovered. 



Mr. W. H. Utterback was sent to explore 

 the Mesozoic deposits about the slopes of the 

 Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. He was 

 successful in discovering, in the Jurassic de- 

 posits on Powder Eiver, the skeleton of a 

 Sauropod dinosaur in which the bones are in 

 an excellent state of preservation and which, 

 moreover, gives promise of being the most 

 perfect skeleton of any member of the Sauro- 

 poda yet discovered. 



Mr. Earl Douglass undertook an exploration 

 of the various Tertiary horizons and localities 

 recently discovered by him in Montana and 

 reports most gratifying results, having secured 

 more than fifty skulls of Tertiary mammals, 

 many of them associated with considerable 

 portions of the skeleton. Mr. Douglass was 

 also fortunate in discovering in one locality, 

 in beds belonging to the White Eiver forma- 

 tion, a horizon where fossil fishes were both 

 abundant and well preserved. 



J. B. Hatcher, 



Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Car- 

 negie Museum. 



INAUGURATION OF CHANCELLOR FRANK 

 STRONG AT THE UNIVERSITY OF 

 KANSAS. 

 Foe the Inauguration Exercises of the new 

 Chancellor at the University of Kansas, three 

 days, October 16, 17 and 18, were set apart. 

 This was a notable event in the history of edu- 

 cation in the middle west. On Thursday, 

 October 16, occurred the dedication of the 

 chemistry building, recently completed. The 

 dedicatory exercises were under the auspices 

 of the Kansas City Section of the American 

 Chemical Society. The following papers were 

 read and discussed : ' The New Eeaction of the 

 Formamidines,' by Professor F. B. Dains of 

 Washburn College, and ' Ionic Velocities in 

 Liquid Ammonia,' by Professor E. C. Frank- 

 lin, of the University. In the evening a 

 large audience assembled to listen to the 

 forma] dedicatory address by Dr. Harvey W-. 

 Wiley, Chief of the Bureaii of Chemistry, De- 



