58 Report of the President 



from the asphalt beds of Rancho-la-Brea. Part of this col- 

 lection has already been selected and forwarded to us. 



Several additions and alterations in the exhibition hall 

 maybe noted. The "Asphalt Group," illustrating the extra- 



■kt t^ i_-i_-^ ordinary deposit of bones of extinct animals 

 New Exhibits T A i u u ^ a u-u- 



near Los Angeles, has been placed on exhibi- 

 tion and attracts much interest. A Glyptodont Group, with 

 three of these gigantic "Tortoise-armadillos," has been 

 placed at one side of the Ground Sloth Group, a skeleton of 

 the Seelidothere or Long-headed Ground Sloth, at the other 

 side. The living and extinct horse skeletons have been re- 

 arranged, and a panel completed to show the Distribution of 

 the Rhinoceroses. A new Duck-billed Dinosaur skeleton 

 Saurolophus has been added to the series in Dinosaur Hall, 

 two large skeletons have been temporarily laid out near it, 

 and a number of smaller installations completed. 



Lack of space prevents for the present an adequate exhibit 



a „t „,.,.. of the unequaled series of Cretaceous 



A New Exhibition ,. ,.,,,» 



.. ,, ._ „ , dinosaurs which the Museum now pos- 



Hall Needed _ , . , 



sesses. It has been necessary to with- 

 draw a number of important exhibits to make room for those 

 recently added. 



The distinguished South African palaeontologist, Robert 

 Broom, accepted a temporary position on the Museum 



_ . _ . . staff, and devoted the last six months 

 Foreign Scientists r . ; . 



_ ° A . of the year to researches upon the 



Study American ' J .: r 



__ ,-,,,. ancient Permian reptiles of South 



Museum Collections .,. , . __ . • ■ _ _ 



Africa and the United States. F. von 



Huene of Tubingen and W. J. Sinclair of Princeton have 



also contributed valuable researches upon American Museum 



material. 



Investigations by Professor Osborn upon Titanotheres and 



upon the Bathyopsis and Eomoropusj by Dr. Matthew and Mr. 



„ , , Granger upon Lower Eocene mammals, and 



Researches by 



„ — by Dr. Gregory upon Eocene primates, are 



Museum Staff , /V ■ -A uv\ a 



completed or in progress. Ihe published 



results of these researches appear in sixteen articles in 



current volumes of the Bulletin. This completes Volume IV 



of the collected series of papers on Fossil Vertebrates. A 



