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Mr. Fric-k is Iju.sily working on his Phocenc and Pieistooene niannnals 

 from southern CaHfornia. Mr. Chark's Christman has spent the entire 

 winter pn^paring this niateriak 



Mr. Pell has l)(>gun work on the prei}aration of a ']'ig(M' Shark speci- 

 men obtained hy him (hn'in»; his stay at Morehead City, North Carolina, 

 last sunnner. 



A handsome Ma/t-</-Wnr Meiiiorinl I'olnnw was compiled by Mr. 

 Chuhl) from the photogra])hs of the great racer which he took lest 

 summer at Saratoga i^nd Belmont Park during the racing, and at Mr. 

 Piddle's home in Maryland. The photographs, in sepia finish, bound 

 with a finely illuminated title-page prepared by Mr. Belanske, made a 

 beautiful album, which Mr. Chubb presented to Mr. Riddle together with 

 a special enlarged photograph of Man-o'-War, which Mr. Riddle has 

 descril ed as the V)est picture ever taken of the splendid animal. 



Mr. F. A. Larson, of I rga, ^Mongolia, visited Professor O.^ljorn and 

 the Department of Vertebrat3 Palaeontology last month. Mr. Larson 

 has been a resident of Urga for the past twenty-five years, and is un- 

 doubtedly the best known and most influential white man in all Mongo- 

 lia. Originally a missionary, sent out by a Swedi-sh church society, 

 he later became interested in stock-raising in the land of his adoption. 



Sir Wilmot Herringham and Sir Walter Fletcher, both of London, and 

 Dr. Simon Flexner visited the Dejxirtment of A>rtebrate Pakrontology 

 re( ently and were entertained by Professor Osborn. 



Mrs. Jacob W'ertheim, of this city, has presented to the Museum a 

 small collection of mounted game fishes, which have been placed on ex- 

 hibition on the third floor, near the elevators. 



Twelve specimens, mounted by Mr. Blaschke, have been added to 

 our display of deep-sea fishes in the ''Fish Hall." 



\\'e are sorry to report the death, on April 10th, of James Atkinson, 

 fornuM-ly storekeeper of the Museum, who has been in the emplo}' of the 



