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were much desired here. This Museum will send in return a cast of the 

 skeleton of Eryop.s, and other material. 



Dr. Muri)hy has been filling a long series of lecture engagements in 

 various cities. On March 12th, he addressed an audience of 3,600 in 

 Boston. On March 19th, he spoke in Chicago, and on March 26th lec- 

 tured again in Boston. His talks have been chiefly on the Peruvian 

 guano indu.stry and bird conservation in South America. Since last 

 April, Dr. Murphy has been publishing in the Brooklyn Museum 

 Quarterly on "The Sea Coast and Islands of Peru." Four parts of the 

 account have already appeared, and the fifth part is in press. 



Mr. Olsen has practically finished work on the remarkable slab con- 

 taining the remains of about twenty- specimens of the two-horned 

 rhinoceros Dicer atherium. The slab will be placed on exhibition im- 

 mediately. 



We are still able (but not glad) to report that no repairs have been 

 made on the southeast tower, which was struck by lightning four 3-ears 

 ago. The wooden scaffolding, however, w^hich was erected shorth^ after 

 the accident, is still very much in evidence. 



A very fine cast of the Alligator Snapper, the largest and fiercest of 

 the fresh water turtles, has been added to the exhibits of the Depart- 

 ment of Herpetology. Two large and striking Iguanas have also been 

 displayed in the hall. 



Preparations are being made to turn the room which Dr. Whitlock 

 is at present using as a laboratory into a Document Room. Dr. Whitlock 

 will then take Mr. Nelson's present room for his laboratory, and Mr. 

 Nelson will occupy the room formerly used by Dr. Spinden. 



In a Savage Arms adverti.sement in the Xational Geographic, we note 

 a photograph of Roy Chapman Andrews and "Kublai Khan," together 

 with a testimonial letter, from R. C. A., in praise of Savage arms and 

 ammunition. 



Master B()])bie Beeth, son of Michael Becth, was a visitor to the 

 Museum in March. 



