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Additions to the Collection during the Year. 



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1900. A collection of sharks' teeth and cetacean otolites dredged from 

 the bottom of the Pacific ocean by the Albatross Expedition of 1899-1900. 

 Received June 1. 



1900. Kinnear collection. A number of fossil fishes from the Old Red 

 Sandstone of Scotland, collected by William T. Kinnear, of Forss by 

 Thurso. Purchased. 



1900. A collection of Triassic fishes from the vicinity of Boonton, 

 New Jersey, in part collected by the Assistant, and in part purchased. 

 Received September 19. 



1900. Cast of type-specimen of Sagenodus copeanus Will., from the 

 Coal Measures of Brown County, Kansas. Presented by Dr. S. W. 

 Williston, of Lawrence, Kansas. 



1900. A collection of Green River fishes from various Eocene local- 

 ities in Western Wyoming, in part collected by the Assistant, and in part 

 purchased ; including perfect examples of Lepridosteus simplex Leidy, 

 JLiphotrygon aeutidens Cope, and numerous teleost fishes. 



1900. Mammoth tooth from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Presented 

 by Horace E. Pastorious, of Philadelphia, Pa. 



1900. A collection of Upper Devonian fish-teeth, from the State 

 Quarry Beds near North Liberty, Johnson County, Iowa. Purchased. 



1900. A collection of Subcarboniferous fish-teeth from the Keokuk 

 Limestone near Burlington, Iowa. Purchased. Also a collection of fish- 

 remains from the same horizon in Henry County, Iowa, collected and 

 presented by Professor T. E. Savage, of Toledo, Iowa. 



1900. St. John Collection. A magnificent collection of middle De- 

 vonian fish-remains from the Cedar Valley Limestone of Blackhawk and 

 Bremer Counties, Iowa, collected between 1860 and 1873 by Orestes H. 

 St. John, former Assistant in this Department. Deposited. 



1901. Skull and mandible of Toxochelys latiremus Cope, from the 

 Niobrara Cretaceous near Elkader, Kansas ; collected by C. H. Sternberg. 

 Purchased. 



J. 901. Mylostoma variabUis Newberry. Counterpart of the unique 

 specimen preserved in the museum of Columbia University, and described 

 by Dr. Bashford Dean in Memoirs of the New York Academy of Sciences, 

 Vol. II. (1901), p. 100, pi. viii. 



1901. A collection of Carboniferous fish-remains from various localities 

 in Nebraska, obtained in exchange with Professor E. H. Barbour, of the 

 State University at Lincoln. 



