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deposited in the Peabody Museum. These collections, six in num- 
ber, are in many respects the most extensive and valuable of any in 
this country, and have been brought together by Professor Marsh at 
great labor and expense during the last thirty years. The paleon- 
tological collections are well known, and were mainly secured by 
Professor Marsh during his explorations in the Rocky Mountains. 
They include most of the type specimens he has described in his 
various publications. The collection of vertebrate fossils is the most 
important and valuable of all, and includes, among many others, (1) 
the series of fossils illustrating the genealogy of the horse, as made 
out by Professor Marsh and accepted by Huxley, who used it as the 
basis of his New York lectures; (2) the birds with teeth, nearly two 
hundred individuals, described in Professor Marsh’s well-known 
monograph, “ Odontornithes” ; (3) the gigantic Dinocerata, several 
hundred in number, Eocene mammals described in his monograph on 
this group; (4) the Brontotheride, huge Miocene mammals, some two 
hundred in number; (5) Pterodactyles, or flying dragons, over six 
hundred in number; (6) the Mosasaurs, or cretaceous sea-serpents, 
represented by more than fifteen hundred.individuals; (7) a large 
number of Dinosaurian reptiles, some of gigantic size. Besides, 
there are various other groups of mammals, birds, and reptiles, most - 
of them including unique specimens. Additional collections com- 
prise extensive series of fossil footprints, invertebrate fossils, recent 
osteology, American archeology and ethnology, and minerals. The 
main conditions of the gift, which is for the benefit of all depart- 
ments of the university, are that the collection shall remain in a fire- 
proof building, and under the control of Professor Marsh during 
his life, after that under the charge of the trustees of the Peabody 
Museum, and, finally, that type specimens shall not be removed from 
the museum building. From a scientific point of view, the value of 
the collections is beyond price, each one containing many specimens 
that can never be duplicated and already are of historical interest. 
Altogether, this is the most important gift to natural science that 
Yale has yet received. 
Franz Kempe, of Stockholm, has endowed a chair of vegetable 
biology in the University of Upsala with $40,000 and has nominated 
Dr. A. N. Lundström of Ultuna as the first occupant. 
Dr. Rodolfo Amando Philippi, on account of his age (ninety 
years), has resigned his position as Director of the National Museum 
in Santiago, Chile. His son, professor of natural history in the 
university there, has been appointed his successor. 
