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creased through exchange with the Peabody Museum at Yale 

 University, the material in question being from the so-called New 

 Albany (= Genesee) Black Shale near Louisville, Kentucky. 



Following is a list of the accessions and publications during the 

 present year. 



Additions to the Collection. 



Small clupeoid from the Green River Eocene of Wyoming, received 

 through Mr. S. Henshaw, Dec. 8, 1906. 



A large assortment of fish-bearing nodules from the base of the 

 Waverhy, near Junction City, Kentuck}*, collected by Mr. Moritz Fischer 

 conjointly with the Assistant in April, 1907. 



A small lot of fish-remains from the same locality as the last, and 

 others in the vicinit}-, collected a number of years ago b}*- Prof. J. C. 

 Fales, of Danville, Kentuck}*, and presented by him to the Museum. 



A second small lot similar to the preceding, some of them referred to 

 in W. M. Linney's " Notes on the Rocks of Central Kentucky," (1882). 

 Purchased. 



About fifty specimens of Devonian and Lower Carboniferous fish- 

 remains formerly in the collection of W. T. Knott, and mentioned in 

 his " Report on the Geolog}* of Marion Count}' " (1885). Purchased. 



A number of Genesee fish-remains from the vicinity of Louisville, 

 Kentucky, collected in 1867 by W. N. Longworth, from whom they were 

 obtained bj r Prof. O. C. Marsh. Received through exchange with the 

 Peabody Museum, Yale University. 



Cast of type specimen of Glyptaspia abbreviate*, presented by Dr. J. 

 M. Clarke. 



Gutta-percha replica of dermal ossifications associated with the com- 

 plete dentition of Rhynchodus in the Upper Devonian of Wildungen, 

 Waldeck, and interpreted by Dr. Otto Jaekel as the ' ' shoulder-girdle 

 of Rhamphodus." Presented by Dr. Jaekel. 



Publications. August 1, 19 06- July 31, 1907. 



Disputed Vesuvian eruptions. Science, 31 August, 1906, new ser., 



vol. 24, p. 284-286. 

 Sharks' teeth and cetacean bones [from the Eastern Tropical Pacific]. 



Bull. M.C. Z, November, 1906, vol. 50, p. 73-98, pi. 1-4. 

 Notes on the history of natural science. /Science, 21 December, 1906, 



new ser., vol. 24, p. 822-823. 

 Vesuvius during the early middle ages: Pop. sci. month., December, 



1906, vol. 69, p. 558-566. 



