64 The Amaicaii Geologist. JuJj', is9s 
ogist of the United States Geological Survey in charge of ver- 
tebrate paleontology. The collection is packed in one hun- 
dred boxes, and weighs over thirteen tons. In accordance 
with law the material will be deposited in the National Mu- 
seuui. This collection includes twelve skulls and other re- 
mains of the gigantic Ceratopsia from the Cretaceous; various 
Dinoccrata fossils from the Eocene; a series of rare specimens 
of Brontotliermm, Elcilicrinjn, Mioliippus, and other genera, 
from the Miocene; a very extensive collection of Rhifioeeros 
and other mammals from the Pliocene ; as well as various in- 
teresting fossils from more recent deposits. 
The other important collections of vertebrate fossils se- 
cured by Prof. Marsh in the west for the Geological Survey, 
and previously transferred to the National Museum, may be 
briefly enumerated as follows: (i) Seventy-two large boxes 
of Pliocene fossils, weighing 7,500 pounds, were transferred 
Dec. 31, 1886, and were stored in the Armory, Feb. 8, 1887. 
The record of these boxes is on file in the office of the Geologi- 
cal Survey, and the Smithsonian numbers of the boxes are 
6601-6672. (2) Thirty-three large boxes (weighing 6,960 
pounds) of rare vertebrate fossils, ready for exhibition, were 
transferred July 17, 1891, and were placed in a case specially 
prepared for them in the National Museum, before the ooen- 
ing of the International Congress of Geologists held in Wash- 
ington that year. (3) Forty-three large boxes (weighing 
4,380 pounds) of Pliocene vertebrate fossils were transferred 
April 17, 1896. 
These various collections with other smaller consignments 
transferred to the National Museum (255 boxes in all. with a 
total weight of over twenty tons) were secured under the 
special direction of Prof. Marsh, as paleontologist of the 
U. S. Geological Survey in charge of vertebrate paleontology, 
during 1882-92. The remaining collections thus made, and 
still at New Haven, will be sent to Washington as soon as 
their scientific investigation now in progress is completed. 
Karl Ludwjg Fridol[n von Sandberger, until recently^ 
professor of mineralogy and geology in the University of 
Wurzburg and director of the Mineralogical Institute in that 
city, died on April nth. Prof. Sandberger is noted for his 
investigations in mineralogy, in ore deposits, in petrology 
and in fossil mollusca. His important work on mineral veins, 
— "Untersuchungen iiber Erzgiinge"-vvas published in 1882- 
85. During the last years of his life he was devoted more 
particularly to mineralogy. In 1855 he was granted the 
Wollaston fund by the Geological Society of London, and 
in 1875 he was elected a foreign member of that societ}\ 
