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ANNUAL RKPORT OF THK 



HKPORT OX THE DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE 

 PALAEONTOLOGY. 



By Charles R. Eastman. 



Departmental work has been carried on during the past year 

 along essentially the same lines as heretofore, fossil fishes having 

 formed the chief subject of investigation. 



An exchange with the Museum of Wesleyan University at 

 Middletown has been arranged and a report prepared on the 

 Triassic fishes of the Connecticut River Valley, which will be 

 published by the Geological and Natural History Survey of 

 Connecticut. 



Through Prof. Charles Schuchert, of Yale University, we have 

 received for study and exchange a quantity of Tertiary and other 

 fish remains from the western United States, including some from 

 the supposed Oligocene of Florissant, Colorado. These last are 

 interesting, especially in view of fresh discoveries of Tertiary 

 fishes from Nevada, and quite recently from Washington, the 

 actual specimens having become the property of the Museum. 



Additions. 



A miscellaneous assortment of fossil vertebrate remains from 

 the English Crag and Cretaceous, transferred from the Depart- 

 ment of Invertebrate Palaeontology. 



A fine specimen showing the well-preserved head and anterior 

 portion of the trunk of a species of Hypsocormus, from the Litho- 

 graphic Stone, L T pper Jura, of Solenhofen, Bavaria. Presented 

 by Mr. Samuel Henshaw. 



A nearly complete skeleton of Diplomystus dentatus, from the 

 Green River Eocene of Uinta County, Wyoming. (L. A. Lee 

 Collection.) Purchased. 



Holotype of Xiphotrygon acutidens Cope, from the Green River 

 Eocene of Twin Creek, Wyoming. (L. A. Lee Collection.) 

 Purchased. 



