98 Report of the President 



EXTINCT VERTEBRATES * 



Henry Fairfield Osborn, Honorary Curator 

 W. D. Matthew, Curator 



Through reductions in staff due to resignations and other 

 causes, the total working force of the department was cut 



down during the past year from twenty-one to 

 ^SbS* fifteen — a loss of over one-fourth. Mr. Adam 



Hermann, head preparator, was retired after a 

 service of nearly thirty years, and the preparation staff was 

 further reduced by three other members resigned or dropped. 

 Associate Curator Barnum Brown was absent during practi- 

 cally the entire year, and not technically on the Museum roll. 

 Mr. A. E. Anderson was unable on account of illness to give 

 more than a few days to the photographic work during the 

 year. These reductions are necessarily reflected in a smaller 

 total of work accomplished, in spite of improvement in indi- 

 vidual output. 



Work was continued during the season at the great Agate 

 Fossil Quarry. An extensive new cut was made at the north- 

 eastern end of the quarry, and carefully pro- 

 J^ eId k spected. A large amount of skeleton material 



of the dwarf rhinoceros Diceratherium and a 

 number of skeletons of the great Clawed Ungulate Moropus 

 were secured, but none of the hoped-for remains of the Giant 

 Pig Dinohyus. The best specimen is a Moropus skeleton 

 materially larger than any hitherto found. Altogether there 

 were brought back to the Museum thirteen boxes of a total 

 weight of 4,510 pounds. 



* Under the Department of Vertebrate Palaeontology (see also page 224). 



