6 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



The skeleton of Diplodocus camegiei has been mounted in the Hall 

 of Paleontology upon bases resembling those upon which the replica 

 was mounted at the British Museum in the spring of 1905. The 

 attitude given the skeleton is in most respects identical with that 

 given the replica on the other side of the Atlantic, with this differ- 

 ence, that the neck has been curved upward and is raised considerably 

 higher than is the case with the facsimile in the British Museum. The 

 mounting of the bones, which are many of them immensely heavy, 

 involved far more mechanical difficulties than the mounting of the 

 replica. Through the ingenuity of Mr. Arthur S. Coggeshall, the 

 chief preparator in the Section of Paleontology, a system of cast steel 

 supports was devised which reduces the amount of metal work ex- 

 posed to view to a minimum and gives the skeleton so far as possible 

 a very graceful appearance, while yet securing absolute rigidity and 

 safety. The editor thinks that the mounting of this skeleton repre- 

 sents the most successful attempt which has yet been made anywhere 

 in setting up so large and cumbrous as well as fragile a specimen. 



Mr. Remi H. Santens, who for eighteen years was connected with 

 Ward's Natural Science Establishment at Rochester, New York, as a 

 taxidermist, has entered into the service of the Carnegie Museum and 

 is doing excellent work, for which his long experience and great ability 

 abundantly prepare him. 



Mr. Frederic Webster has mounted in very lifelike attitude a 

 grizzly bear, two mountain sheep (Ovis canadensis), and a magnifi- 

 cent Rocky Mountain goat, recently presented to the Museum by Mr. 

 John M. Phillips of Pittsburgh, whose adventures, in company with 

 Mr. William T. Hornaday, are delightfully described in a volume 

 coming from the pen of the latter gentleman and entitled " Camp 

 Fires in the Canadian Rockies," which has just been issued by the 

 Scribners. It is to be regretted that more of the hunters of big game 

 in this country do not realize how much they might do to interest 

 and instruct the general public if they would take the pains which has 

 been taken by Mr. Phillips to preserve specimens obtained in the 

 chase. Mr. Phillips' great kindness to the Museum is deeply appre- 

 ciated, and we hope that his public-spirited example may be followed 

 by many others of the sportsmen of the " Iron City." 



