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number of more popular articles or notices appear in the 

 Museum Journal. A new edition of the guide to the Evolu- 

 tion of the Horse has been published, and a Dinosaur Hand- 

 book is under way. 



To the new edition of the "Evolution of the Horse" 

 guide has been added a section by S. H. Chubb, treating of 

 Osteolo of tlie ori & m of the domesticated breeds of 



Existing Horses the horse and the development of the teeth. 

 Mr. Chubb has also continued prepara- 

 tion work upon the osteology of the existing species, wild and 

 domesticated, and made a number of valuable additions to 

 the exhibition and study collections. 



Charles R. Knight has completed a number of sketch res- 



_ torations of extinct mammals and pre- 



Restorations of . , ,. . ,,,-■, 



-, . L A . , pared the preliminary sketches for mural 



Extinct Animals . . .„ ™ . 



paintings to illustrate the Pleistocene 



life of different continents, and the environment of the 

 Titanotheres. 



RECENT AND EXTINCT FISHES, EXISTING REP- 

 TILES AND BATRACHIANS 



DEPARTMENT OF ICHTHYOLOGY AND HERPETOLOGY 



Bashford Dean, Curator Emeritus ; Louis Hussakof, Acting Curator ; 

 Mary Cynthia Dickerson, Associate Curator of Herpetology 



During the past year the department was enabled, through 



the generosity of Cleveland H. Dodge, to add to its collections 



a number of valuable specimens. Especially 

 Accessions 



noteworthy are five examples of the Australian 



Lungfish, a fish found in certain parts of eastern Australia and 



said to be threatened with extinction owing to the inroads of 



civilization; a magnificent specimen of a fossil fish, Lepidotus, 



from the lithographic shales of Bavaria; a valuable collection 



of fossil armored fishes, or Arthrodira, from the Devonian of 



Ohio, and eight remarkable embryological preparations made 



in Prague, Bohemia. 



We are also indebted, as in previous years, to the New 



York Zoological Society for the gift of a large number of 



