MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



7 



the Miocene period. Professor Loomis has also given over one hun- 

 dred flint chippings and partly completed implements from an Indian 

 workshop of the pre-Sioux age. 



The museum also contributed towards Professor Loomis's expedi- 

 tion of last year, and he secured for the museum a number of fine 

 Miocene fossils from Wyoming and Nebraska representing parts of 

 the following vertebrates: Dicerotherium nebraskensis, D. Schiffi, 

 Merychyus minfmus, Stenomylus, n. s., and a large number of minute 

 remains of vertebrates found on an ant hill in Wyoming, where they 

 had been gathered by the ants. Among the especially interesting 

 specimens in the Loomis collection is a mount of an as yet undescribed 

 species of Stenomylus, that shows the actual condition in which these 

 fossils occur. 



Robert O. Morris Collection of Local Mammals. 



Under the direction of Mr. Morris, Mr. Dearden has made a care- 

 ful search of Mt. Greylock and other localities and as a result several 

 valuable specimens are secured. Especial mention should be given to 

 the big-tailed shrew found in Tolland and the first specimen of the 

 Mnd ever taken in Massachusetts. Another addition is the woodland 

 jumping mouse (Napaeozapus ijisignis), the prettiest and most beauti- 

 fully marked of the mice. The museum specimen came from Tolland. 

 Heretofore the only Massachusetts station for this animal was Mt. 

 Greylock. 



The George S. Lewis, Jr., Collections. 



These have been enriched by additions of fibers and grasses and 

 materials made from these, such as straw braids. A series of fancy 

 ginghams of both foreign and domestic weave has also been given. 



A noteworthy specimen of a cross section of Mexican mahogany 

 has also been added. 



The Catharine L. Howard Library. 



The annual meeting of the Catharine L. Howard Library Associa- 

 tion was held in the museum February 24, 1908. Many former pupils 

 and friends were present to greet Miss Sophia Howard. The follow- 

 ing list of additions to the library will show how valuable it is as an 

 aid to the study of the collections: — 



Botanical Gazette. 



Hartog. Protozoa, Porifera, Coelenterata. 

 Sargent, Charles. Trees and shrubs, vol. 2, pt. 1. 



