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estimate of the man's work which has recently 

 been formed by the cahner study of the un- 

 prejudiced, will only be helped by the appear- 

 ance of this thoroughly good work. It is all 

 that an autobiography should be. There is 

 no self -laudation, no posing for efPect, and no 

 fulsome praise. 



In an ascending scale we follow him 

 through Turkey, the Levant and Abyssinia. 

 During these campaigns he became famous 

 for the accuracy of his work; and his energy 

 in getting it to his publishers was so great 

 that some of his competitors seemed inclined 

 to doubt its authenticity until the more tardy 

 reports verified his statements. In the follow- 

 ing years, during the search for Livingstone, 

 the war in Ashanti land and the search for 

 Emfn Bey, the description of the terrible 

 difficulties encountered were undoubtedly the 

 cause of the disbelief so frequently expressed 

 with regard to his results. Stanley was not a 

 scientific man, but his keen observation of 

 facts and his conscientious performance of 

 duty must over-balance many defects in this 

 line. The pioneer work of the first man 

 traveling along these lines of greatest resist- 

 ance must have been savage work indeed, and 

 demanded every ounce of vitality of the most 

 capable explorer of his day, if not of any time, 

 and the wonder is that so few mistakes were 

 made. 



I mm ediately upon his return to Europe he 

 sought to make his work of practical value, 

 and here again he encountered the wildest 

 sort of antagonism. His success and his 

 after life are matters of history and this vol- 

 ume records them in a most pleasant and 

 readable manner. 



William Libbey 



PROGRESS OF PALEONTOLOGWAL RE- 

 SEARCH BY THE OARXEGIE 

 INSTITUTE 

 Generously supported by Mr. Andrew Car- 

 negie, whose interest in paleontological re- 

 search is well known, the Carnegie Museum 

 of Pittsburgh has during the past year made 

 many forward strides. The work of extrica- 

 ting from the matrix some of the skulls of 



the mammalia found in the summer of 1908 

 in the Uinta Basin by Mr. Earl Douglass was 

 diligently prosecuted during the early part 

 of 1909, and Mr. Douglass has published in 

 the Annals of the Oarnegie Museum a brief 

 account of three new Titanotheres from the 

 Upper Eocene. These three species represent 

 only a few of the large number of inter- 

 esting forms recovered by Mr. Douglass dur- 

 ing the expedition of 1908. A number of 

 fossil turtles apparently representing an equal 

 number of species were also recovered from 

 various levels. These have been partially 

 prepared for study and will be submitted for 

 description to a specialist in this group. The 

 nearly perfect skeleton of Moropus elaius re- 

 covered during the explorations made in 

 western Nebraska during the years 1906 to 

 1908 has been freed from the matrix and pre- 

 pared for mounting. A monographic paper 

 giving an account of the osteology of the ani- 

 mal is in course of preparation by the Curator 

 of Vertebrate Paleontology. Nearly twenty 

 skeletons, some of them absolutely complete 

 and others approximately complete, belonging 

 to two species of the cameloid genus Steno- 

 mylus, were recovered in 1908 and 1909 by Mr. 

 O. A. Peterson. Several of these skeletons 

 have been worked out from the matrix and two 

 of them have been prepared as slab-mounts 

 and are now on exhibition in the museum. A 

 singularly perfect skeleton of a carnivore, re- 

 vealing features common to the Canidas and 

 the Felidoe, and not distantly related to 

 Daphosnus felinus Scott, has been extricated 

 from the matrix and mounted for exhibition. 

 A paper upon this specimen is in course of 

 preparation by Mr. O. A. Peterson. 



Mr. Earl Douglass since June has been 

 busy making collections in various geological 

 formations in Utah. In August he discov- 

 ered three dinosaurs with the skeletons ap- 

 parently completely articulated. Under the 

 direction of the curator of paleontology he is 

 spending the winter in Utah engaged in 

 carrying forward the work of tating up the 

 remains of these colossal animals. Mr. Doug- 

 lass's camp is located at a considerable ele- 

 vation, but he has, so far as possible, forti- 



