ANNALS 



OF THE 



CARNEGIE MUSEUM 



VOLUME VI. NO. 4. 



Editorial Notes. 



The present number of the Annals contains the Title-page, the Table 

 of Contents, the Lists of Plates and Figures in the Text, together with 

 the Index of Volume VI. Owing to the great length of the article on the 

 Birds of Costa Rica published in Part 3, it has seemed inadvisable to 

 attempt to include in this volume any other contributions than those 

 therein contained. 



The fourteenth celebration of Founder's Day was observed at the In- 

 stitute with appropriate ceremonies. The principal addresses were made 

 by President Taft and by the Belgian Minister, Count Conrad de Buisseret. 

 In anticipation of the event a number of groups in the Section of Recent 

 Vertebrates were placed upon exhibition and the Gallery of Useful Arts 

 was on that day thrown open to the public for the first time. 



Mr. John D. Haseman, after two and a half years' absence in South 

 America, has safely returned to the Museum. The collections of fishes 

 which he has made on the southern continent are among the largest and 

 most important which have ever come from South America, and although 

 the work of classifying and arranging them has just been taken in hand, 

 it is evident that Mr. Haseman has succeeded in acquiring for the Museum 

 specimens of the majority of the species which have hitherto been listed 

 from South America and undoubtedly a number of species which are new 

 to science. Mr. Haseman's collections, together with those taken by 



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