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the Free Public Museum, Liverpool; the Museum of the |Royal 

 College of Surgeons, London; the Rijks Museum and Herbarium, 

 Leyden; the Kolonial Museum, Haarlem; the Museum der Provinz- 

 Hannover, Hannover; the Botanischer Garten, Steglitz; the Botan- 

 isches Museum, Schoneberg ; the Naturhistorisches Musuem and the 

 Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin ; the Konigl. Hof museum, the Grosser 

 Garten, the Botanischer Garten, and the Technologische Hochschule, 

 Dresden; the Museum Regni Bohemiae and Botanischer Garten, 

 Praag; the K. K. Hofmuseum, Vienna; the Museo Storia Naturale, 

 the Giardino Botanico, and the Reale Instituto di Studi Superiori, 

 Florence; the gardens of the Villa Pallavicini, Genoa; the Museum 

 Civico and Giardini Publici, Milan ; the Cantonal School and Museum, 

 Luzerne, the Herbarium Boissier and Natural History Museum, 

 Geneva; the Jardin des Plantes and its great museums, Paris; the 

 Dendrological Museum and the Museum of the Congo, Brussels; the 

 Botanisches Museum and Naturhistorisches Museum, Hamburg; 

 and the Naturhistorisches Museum, Bremen. O. E. Lansing, Jr., 

 a preparator in this department, made occasional trips during the 

 summer months in and around Chicago, and secured much desirable 

 material. 



Early in February, a report having been received of a fall of 

 meteorites in western Kansas, the Curator of Geology visited that 

 section for purposes of investigation. His studies in the vicinity 

 resulted in the discovery and the acquisition of one of the largest 

 and finest meteorites of the fall. In addition, a number of other 

 individual aerolites of the fall were obtained from residents of the 

 locality. The collecting of vertebrate fossils in the field was continued 

 by a party in charge of Assistant Curator Riggs during four months 

 of the summer. Owing to heavy rains and the impossibility of 

 securing proper camp help, the work of the party was considerably 

 hindered, but a good collection of hitherto unrepresented forms was 

 nevertheless obtained. The formation in which the work was carried 

 on was the Loup Fork Miocene of Nebraska and Wyoming. A typical 

 series of the fossils of this period was secured, and a large number of 

 specimens were obtained, chief among which may be mentioned one 

 excellent titanothere skull; thirty-one specimens of various forms of 

 the camel family; twenty -four specimens of Oreodonts, representing 

 three or four different genera and including in one specimen four indi- 

 viduals; four incomplete skeletons of fossil dogs and two mustellines; 

 two nearly complete skeletons and several skulls of rodents and four 



