64 The American Geologist. Jannar.v, 1900 
1. General geology- and tcctonique. 
2. Stratigraphy and paleontology. 
3. Mineralogy and petrography. 
4. Applied geology and hydrologie. 
ihe conjunction of this Congress with the great exposi- 
tion of 1900 at Paris will probably cause a large attendance. 
In conclusion, the Committee assure members of the Con- 
gress that through the agency of the Societe des Voyages 
modernes (i -rue de I'Echelle), they will be able to procure ac- 
commodations at comfortable hotels at Paris at the follow- 
ing rate : Room for lodging, from six francs per day upward ; 
lodging and two meals, from thirteen francs per day upward. 
TheYe..\k JUST CLOSING, (1899) has been a very fruitful one 
for the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology of the Ameri- 
can Museum of Natural History. Mr. Walter Granger and 
four assistants spent about six months at and near the Bone 
Cabin quarry in Wyoming, with very important paleontologi- 
cal results. They procured a large number of limbs and one 
nearly entire skeleton of a Morosaurus and a large part of 
the skeleton of a Brontosaurus. The last is about the same 
size but of heavier proportions than the skeleton described by 
Prof. Ma!sh. Another find made not far from the Bone Cabin 
quairy was the larger part of the skeleton of a Baptanodon 
(an icthyosaurian), the paddles and most of skull being par- 
ticularly worthy of mention. Two large car loads of speci- 
mens were brought east and are now being worked up at the 
Museum. Dr. W. D. Matthew had another party in this re- 
gion for two months, studying the geology from Como Blufifs 
northward to the Freeze-Out Mts. and the Rattlesnakes. He 
made many geological sections and took a large number of 
photographs and expects to continue the work another sea- 
son. Prof. H. F. Osborn spent several weeks in visiting all 
the localities from which the U. S. Geological Survey has 
collected dinosaur remains and in studying their geology. 
Another division under the charge of Mr. J. W. Gidley worked 
in the Miocene and Pliocene of Texas with very satisfactory 
results. 
The event of greatest importance to the department dur- 
ing the year was the acquisition of the remainder of the 
Mesozoic specimens of the Cope collection, including reptiles, 
amphibians and fish. This was the gift of President Morris 
K. Jesup to the Museum and secures to it all the fossils left 
by the late Prof. E. D. Cope, the mammal remains having 
been bought some years ago. This last purchase includes 
about three hundred and fifty of Cope's types and much un- 
published and unworked materiaL 
