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ton University, joined this expedition as a volunteer, and 

 contributed valuable observations upon the geology of the 

 country, besides discovering many of the specimens secured. 



A discovery of peculiar interest to citizens of New York is 

 a considerable part of a dinosaur skeleton at Fort Lee, at the 

 very gates of the city. This specimen was found in the red 

 shales which underlie the trap rock of the Palisades about a 

 mile and a half north of the ferry landing, and the animal whose 

 bones are thus preserved probably wandered in life over what 

 is now Manhattan Island. The Museum is indebted for this 

 discovery to Messrs. J. E. Hyde, D. D. Condit and J. C. Boyle, 

 postgraduate students under Professor Kemp of the Depart- 

 ment of Geology of Columbia University. 



Through the efforts of President Osborn, Dr. R. Broom, 

 the distinguished palaeontologist of Cape Colony, has been in- 

 duced to collect in the interests of this Museum in the Karroo 

 formation of that region, and has already secured a skeleton 

 and a fine series of skulls of the ancient and peculiar types of 

 fossil reptiles which inhabited Africa during the Permian 

 Period. 



The Museum has secured through exchange with the 

 Tubingen University a fine Ichthyosaur skeleton, which when 

 restored and mounted will afford an excellent companion 

 piece to the Plesiosaur skeleton recently placed on exhibition. 

 Other important exchanges have been made with the Stock- 

 holm and La Plata Museums. The exchange list in this de- 

 partment now includes the Museums of London, Paris, Berlin, 

 Munich, Stuttgart, Tubingen, Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Basel, 

 Prague, Lyons (City and University), Stockholm, Christiania, 

 Moscow, Bucharest, Bologna, Stellenbosch, Adelaide, Buenos 

 Aires, La Plata, and the Universities of Yale, Princeton, 

 Michigan, Kansas, California, the National Museum and 

 others. 



Finally, in earnest of the cordial relations existing between 

 this institution and the Senckenberg Museum of Frankfurt, 

 the directors of that museum have recently notified us of 

 their decision to present to us a splendid skeleton of Mystrio- 

 saurus, a marine crocodile of the Jurassic Period. This will 

 be an important addition to the series of fine skeletons of 



