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crushed in the least, although the strata in which they were originally 

 deposited are now tilted up at an angle of sixty degrees with the horizon. 



The Museum has acquired from Dr. J. J. Stevenson of Xew York the 

 greater part of his collection of works on geology and paleontology. The 

 collection is important because it fills a number of lacuna which heretofore 

 had existed in our collection. It is especially rich in the reports of the 

 various geological surveys carried on by the general Government and 

 bv the various states. 



The Director of the Museum, accompanied by Mr. A. S. Coggeshall, 

 sailed from Xew York on June the 4th for Cherbourg. His purpose is 

 to proceed as quickly as possible to St. Petersburg, where he has promised 

 to be on June 15, in order there to set up the replica of Diplodocus carnegiei 

 which has been kindly presented by Mr. Andrew Carnegie to His Majesty 

 the Czar. It will be installed among the geological collections of the 

 Imperial Academy of Sciences, known as the Museum of Peter the Great. 



