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Mr. Sievers is the possessor of a young crow which is now kept in his 

 rahbitry. Perhaps he is holding it until after election for some of his 

 political opponents. 



Accountants from The Audit Company of New York have been 

 engaged in making their semi-annual examination of the Museum's 

 accounts. 



A Scorage room for ice is being constructed in the central basement, 

 and bins for the storage of whale skeletons have been completed in the 

 north wirg basement. 



Mr. Andrews lately experienced a complete "knockout'' from the 

 deft hand of a prominent surgeon, R. C. says it took gas to do it though. 



Mr. Hyde is in charge of a Boy Scout Camp at Central Valley during 

 the summer. 



Mr. Julian A. Dimock, a son of the late Anthony W. Dimock, the 

 well known writer of hunting and fishing articles and books of adventure, 

 has recently donated to the Museum upwards of 4,000 negatives which 

 he made on trips while accompanying his father on his many expeditions. 

 Without doubt this gift is one of the most valuable and distinctive of its 

 kind ever received in the Museum. 



Classes from the summer school at Columbia are frequently noticed 

 about the halls. They are most enthusiastic over the Habitat Bird Groups 

 and exhibits in the Darwin Hall. As to Dinosaurs, a student w^as 

 heard to repeat the old farmer's statement concerning the camel — 

 "There ain't ro such animile." And speaking of Dinosaurs, Mark Twain 

 once remarked to President Osborn, after looking at the Brontosaurus, 

 that if he (Osborn) hadn't run out of plaster he would have made him 

 seventy-five feet long. 



