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and Mexico, thus filling in another of the gaps in the scientific data upon 

 which arc based our reconstructions of the lands and seas of the past. 



Dr. O'Conncll has already published in the Bulletin, Volume XLII, 

 a first paper on this collection ("Jurassic Ammonite Fauna of Cuba") 

 in which she describes several of the species studied. She is now prepar- 

 ing to present in collaboration with Mr, Brown a paper which will 

 correlate the Cuban formations with synchronous ones of Europe, Asia 

 and Mexico, and will include a pala^ogeographic map and field notes. 



The new aquarium at Miami, Florida, is now officially opened, with 

 Mr. L. L. Mowbray, a member of the Museum, in charge as Director. 

 It is hoped that both the Museum's Department of Ichthyology and the 

 new Aquarium will benefit from friendly cooperation. 



The most desirable specimens in the collection of mounted fishes 

 made by the late Jacob Wertheim have been donated to the Museum. 

 One of these is a tuna measuring seven feet two inches in length, and 

 which weighed 286 pounds, — the largest ever taken with rod and reel 

 off the New Jersey coast. 



Miss Austin, the nature study teacher of the New York Institute for 

 the Blind, brought a new class of ten small children to the ^Museum re- 

 cently to study mammals. 



Mrs. Katherine Smith has sent several specimens of California 

 flowers and leaf sprays to the Smilodon Tribe, Woodcraft League, as 

 scout reports. 



On Friday, January 21st, a party of one hundred from the Brooklyn 

 Training School for Teachers made a tour of the Museum. 



Mr. C. C. Willoughby, Director of the Peabody ]Museum, spent 

 Monday, January 17th, at the Museum. 



Mr. Nichols had an article on the Florida fishes of the ]\Iiami 

 A quarium in the January number of the National Geographic. He has an 

 article now in press in the Bulletin describing a new genus of Flounders, 

 the type of which, now deposited here, was taken at Tm'ks Island in the 

 Bahamas bv Mr- Mowbrav. 



