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at the Agate Spring quarry, permission to explore which has been so 

 kindly accorded to us by Mr. James H. Cook. He was very success- 

 ful in his efforts, and one of the results has been the acquisition of a 

 large amount of most excellent material illustrating the osteology of 

 the genus Moropus and its allies. A great deal of material belonging 

 to various genera of the extinct Rhinocerotidae was recovered. During 

 the month of September Mr. Utterback undertook to explore a locality 

 known to him in the Laramie beds, which yielded some very fine 

 material illustrative of the osteology of the Ceratopsia. He was un- 

 able to complete his work owing to the advent of winter at the high 

 altitude at which he was laboring, but found enough to show that it is 

 highly probable that we shall succeed in recovering an almost entire 

 skeleton, including the skull, of Torosaurus, one of the huge horned 

 reptiles of the Laramie. Messrs. Roy L. Moodie and J. W. Bartho- 

 low, acting under the instructions of Dr. S. W. Williston, succeeded in 

 recovering for the Museum from the Hailey Shales of Wyoming a large 

 quantity of interesting material, all of which is believed to be new to 

 science. Upon the whole the work of the paleontological section of 

 the Museum has been as successful as that of any previous year and 

 will be found in the end to have resulted in a very considerable 

 enlargement of our knowledge of the life of the past. 



Mr. W. E. C. Todd during the month of July made a brief excur- 

 sion to Canada to the country south of Lake Abitibi, and succeeded in 

 making some interesting observations upon the avifauna of that region 

 and in collecting a number of desirable specimens. 



The editor of the Annals with sincere sorrow recalls that on July 

 19, 1906, Sir Walter L. Buller, the distinguished ornithologist, 

 whose works on the birds of New Zealand are classic, ended his earthly 

 labors. The great collection upon which he based his " Supplement 

 to the Birds of New Zealand," which is in fact a revision of his earlier 

 work on "The Birds of New Zealand," is the permanent property of 

 the Carnegie Museum. A letter from his son states that on several 

 occasions before his death Sir Walter expressed great pleasure at the 

 thought that the collection was lodged in the Carnegie Museum, which 

 he declared to be in his opinion "one of the finest institutions of its 

 kind in existence." 



