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THE NEWS 



After a short illness, Dr. Allen, for 3G years Curator of Mammals 

 here, died on the morning of August 29th, at his summer home at Corn- 

 wall-on-Hudson. He was 85 years old. The value and volume of his 

 scientific work and the beauty of his character and personality are above 

 comment here. His ])lace can never be filled. 



Mrs. Allen, who suffered a collai)se after her husband's death, is now 

 regaining her strength. 



President Osborn calls his recent journey a Neolithic tour because 

 he desired to study the New Stcne Age in the same way in which he 

 studied the Paheolithic or Old Stcne Age during his tour of 1913. Ac- 

 companied by Mrs. Osborn, he sailed on the S.S. ''Olympic" on July 

 16th, with a passport vised by six governments, and successively visited 

 England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and France. 



A week in England included a day at the site of the discovery of the 

 Piltdown man in Sussex and two days on the east coast, where Pliocene 

 man has at last been found in England, — a truly epoch-making dis- 

 covery. In Norway, a delightful reception and entertainment by Dr. 

 John Alfred Mj en led to the latter promising to come to the Eugenics 

 Congress. In Sweden, the principal host was Baron De Geer, who was 

 received in the American Museum with such distinction last year. He 

 has fixed the date of the arrival of man ir Scandinavia with great preci- 

 sion. Wonderful museums and collections were visited in Stockholm, 

 Copenhagen, Liege, Brussels and Paris, where New Stone Age history of 

 man in Europe was revealed. 



For much needed recreation. Professor Osborn accepted the invita- 

 tion of the Prince of Monaco to visit his camp in the high Pyrenees, not 

 far from the Spanish frontier, where the Prince is making a national game 

 preserve — already full of chamois, to which he hopes to add the ibex. 

 This was followed by the resumption of New Stone Age interests in the 

 central Pyrenees region, including a visit to the wonderful caverns, Les 

 Trois Freres, discovered by the Count of Begouen two years ago and 

 named for his three sons; also a visit to the cave of the Tuc d'Audoubert, 

 discovered in 1913, which more recently has revealed the famous pair of 

 bisons sculptured in clay; then a trip northward to Toulouse and west- 

 ward to P( rdejiux to see the w( nderful iMTcient scul]Uures of the man and 



