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face was high in relation to the width, lep- 

 toprosopic."' " The lower jaw had a well-de- 

 fined angle, the boil.v of the bone was massive 

 in the males, and with a pronounced chin." 



So much for this first memoir, which leaves 

 to be desired only greater numbers of speci- 

 mens from some of the counties and, especially 

 with the relation to cranial capacity, estimates 

 of height of the individuals. A second me- 

 moir, to contain an account of prehistoric 

 Scottish skulls, as well as ' a discussion of the 

 character of Scottish crania and heads in 

 tiieir general etlmographical relation to pre- 

 historic races in Britain, and to the people 

 of tlie adjoining part of the continent of 

 Europe ' is to follow. 



A. IIrdlick.\. 



r. S. National Musei'm, 

 Wa.suingtox, D. C. 



\ KRTliBKATK l'ALEt)NTOLOC.Y AT THE CARXEGII-: 

 MUSEUM. 



Through the continued generosity of !Mr. 

 Carnegie the usual activity has been main- 

 tained during the past year in the Depart- 

 ment of Vertebrate Paleontology at this 

 museum. 



The Bayet Colleclion of Fussils. — Negotia- 

 tions begun more than a year ago b,v ■ the 

 present writer resulted in July in the acquisi- 

 tion of the paleontological collections of Baron 

 de Bayet of Brussels, Belgium. This collec- 

 tion is especially rich in Mesozoic vertebrates 

 from Solenhofen, Cerin, Holzmaden, Lyme 

 Regis and the province of Benevento, Italy; 

 in Tertiary fishes and other vertebrates, in- 

 vertebrates and plants from the famous lo- 

 cality of Monte Bolca, near Verona, Italy; 

 from Armissan, near Xarbonne, France; from 

 the Belgian Tertiaries; from Sicily, etc. It 

 also contains large and valuable collections 

 of insects and other invertebrates from the 

 Solenhofe7i beds of Bavaria, a superb collec- 

 tion of European cephalopoda from the Jleso- 

 zoic and of Paleozoic trilobites and other in- 

 vertebrates. 



Though containing no types and little that 

 is new to paleontology, its acquisition by an 

 American museum is of importance as making 

 accessible for the first time to American stu- 



dents any considerable collection of European 

 vertebrates without the necessity of a trip to 

 Europe. Dr. C. R. Eastman has undertaken 

 to prepare a mem,oir descriptive of the fishes 

 in the collection, and it is the desire of the 

 . curator of the department to arrange for the 

 treatment of the other groups in a similar 

 manner by equally competent sjjecialists, so 

 that the material in the collection may be 

 made known and available for purposes of 

 comparison to students of paleontology. 



It will doubtless be nuiny years before a 

 similar opportunity will present itself for ac- 

 quiring at a single stroke so large and varied 

 a collection of European fossil vertebrates, 

 and American paleontologists are indebted to 

 Mr. Carnegie for his generosity in supplying 

 the funds necessary for the purchase of this 

 valuable collection. 



Field Work during the Season of 1903. — 

 During the season just drawing to a close 

 four parties have been engaged, under the 

 general direction of the curator, in studying 

 the geology and in collecting vertebrate and 

 other fossils from various Tertiary, Mesozoic 

 and other horizons of the west, chiefly in 

 Kansas, Wyoming and Montana. 



Pursuant to a general plan undertaken some 

 time since, Mr. Earl Douglass has continued his 

 explorations of the Tertiary lake basins of 

 western Montana and has been successful in 

 securing considerable collections representa- 

 tive of the fossil faunas and floras of those 

 deposits. Of greatest importance among the 

 results of his labors in that region may be 

 mentioned the discovery of Oligocenc beds 

 referable to the White River and containing 

 the remains of a rich and varied vertebrate 

 fauna in a good state of preservation. Here- 

 tofore the White River formations of that 

 region have yielded comparativel.v few and 

 for the most part poorly jireserved verte- 

 brates. In addition to his work in the Ter- 

 tiary ilr. Douglass was also able to make some 

 interesting collections from, and observations 

 relating to the Carboniferous and Perniian(?) 

 of that region. 



During the earlier part of the season Mr. 

 V. \V. Gilmore was engaged in completing the 



