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Associate Curator Reeds, accompanied by Mr. P. B. Hill, 

 did field work on the Helderberg escarpment near Utica, 

 Cobleskill and Schoharie, New York; Palmerton, Schuylkill 

 Haven and Pine Grove, Pa., and on the outliers near Cornwall 

 and Hudson, New York, which resulted in valuable additions 

 to our series of fossils and photographs from those localities. 



Assistant Edward J. Foyles spent nine days in field work on 

 the Standing Stone, Tennessee, relief model area and three 

 weeks in studies and collecting in eastern Kentucky. 



Dr. Hovey attended the annual meeting of the Geological 

 Society of America in Chicago, in December. He was one of 



the delegates representing the Museum at the 

 Scientific Annual Meeting in May of the American Asso- 



ConvenUons ciation of Museums in Washington, D. C, and 



he was one of the Museum's representatives at 

 the First Pan-Pacific Scientific Conference, held in Honolulu 

 in August. 



The seismograph installed here as a deposit by the New York 



Academy of Sciences has continued under the care of Dr. 



Reeds, and he has seen to its operation with the 



Seismograph ^ q£ Mj% p rentice B RiU Some gQod rec0 rds 



have been obtained. 



Much of Dr. Reeds's time has been occupied in arranging 

 and supervising the work of the assistants engaged on the 

 palaeontological collections. He has also selected and prepared 

 certain material for the explanatory and evolution series and 

 attended to other routine work. 



The death of Mr. Adam Bruckner on the twelfth of Decem- 

 ber removed an assistant who had served faithfully for many 

 years, first under Professor Whitfield and then 

 under the present Curator. We wish to record 

 here our tribute to him for his constant effort to do his duty 

 to the limit. He learned much about the collections and worked 

 loyally and persistently even when suffering from physical 

 weakness. 



