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SCIENCE. 



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work in a Jurassic dinosaur quarry opened by 

 him during the preceding season at the base 

 of the Freezeout Mountains in southern Wy- 

 oming. After successfully completing this 

 work he began, early in June, explorations in 

 the chalk (Niobrara) of western Kansas, 

 where he was joined by Dr. E. H. Sellards as 

 assistant. It is the earnest desire of the 

 curator of this department that the paleon- 

 tological collections of the museum shall 

 eventually represent in a creditable manner 

 the faunas of all the more important fossil- 

 bearing horizons of our own country at least. 

 It was with the idea of acquiring such a repre- 

 sentative collection of Niobrara fossils that 

 the work in Kansas by Mr. Gilmore and Dr. 

 Sellards was undertaken. Already some forty- 

 five boxes of material have been collected 

 and we hope to continue the work in this for- 

 mation for some years. 



Mr. W. H. Utterback completed the unearth- 

 ing of the splendid skeleton of Diplodocus, 

 discovered by him the preceding year in the 

 Jurassic deposits on the Red Pork of Powder 

 River at the foot of the Big Horn Moun- 

 tains in central Wyoming. In this same re- 

 gion he also secured considerable portions of 

 the skeletons of two other colossal Jurassic 

 dinosaurs. In the latter part of August Mr. 

 Utterback was transferred to central Mon- 

 tana to continue the work in the Cretaceous 

 of that region carried on during the month of 

 August by the present writer. In this field 

 considerable new and interesting material has 

 been discovered, coming chiefiy from the 

 Judith River beds. 



Research Worl^. — In research, beside several 

 shorter papers ,by the curator, Mr. Douglass 

 and Mr. Gilmore, there have appeared or are 

 now in press an important paper by Mr. 

 Douglas^ on the v>ertebrate fauna of the Ter- 

 tiary lake beds of Montana {Annals Carnegie 

 Museum, Vol. 2, pp. 145-199 with Plate and 

 3Y figures in the text) ; a paper by the present 

 writer on the ' Oligocene Canidse ' {Memoirs 

 Carnegie Museum, Vol. I., No. II., pp. 65-108, 

 6 plates and 7 figures in text) and another 

 by the same author on the ' Osteology of 

 Eaplocanthosaurus ' {Memoirs Carnegie Mu- 



seum, Vol. II., No. I., pp. 1-75, G plates and 

 30 figures in text). 



The most important additions to the exhi- 

 bition series during the year have been the 

 skeleton of Daphoenus felinus mounted by 

 Mr. A. S. Coggeshall and the skeletons of a 

 Loup Fork camel and of an Oligocene sabre- 

 toothed cat {Hoplophoneus) mounted by Mr. 

 O. A. Paterson. Two splendid skeletons of 

 Ichthyosaurus have also been placed on exhi- 

 bition. 



Considerable progress has also been made in 

 the preparation of casts of the skeleton of 

 Diplodocus carnegii for exchange with other ^ 

 museums. J. B. Hatcher, 



Curator Vertelrate Paleontology. 



Carnegie Museum, 

 October 6, 1903. 



BTHNOLOaiGAL AND ARGHEOLOGICAL 8VR- 

 VJEY OF CALIFORNIA. 

 For several years the University of Cali- 

 fornia, through its Department of Anthro- 

 pology and by the liberal assistance of Mrs. 

 Phoebe A. Hearst, has been engaged in an 

 Ethnological and Archeological Survey of the 

 State. A large amount of material, illustra- 

 tive of Indian life and culture in past and 

 present times, has been obtained and will form 

 an important part of the anthropological col- 

 lections which nvill in the future be exhibited 

 in a museum of the university at Berkeley. 

 At the present time this collection, with others 

 of the department, is temporarily placed in 

 one of the buildings of the afliliated colleges 

 belonging to the University in San Francisco. 

 Here the large and valuable collections are 

 safely cared for until the permanent museum 

 building is secured. 



Systematic exjDlorations are being made of 

 the later gravel deposits, of several caves, and 

 of the ancient shellheaps, in order to ascer- 

 tain when man first occupied this region. The 

 languages of the existing Indians are being 

 studied by experts of the department; the 

 customs and mythology of the difPerent tribes 

 are being carefully recorded; and collections 

 illustrating their arts are being formed for the 

 museum. A study of the physical characters 

 of the various groups of Indians, combined 



