Editorial Commeftt. 173 
The addition of this immense collection of the most important 
American fossil remains to the treasures alread}' assembled in the 
National Museum will, I am sure, afford the greatest satisfaction to all 
workers in the field of'palaeontology both at home and abroad, and 
you will premit me to add a personal word in appreciation of your un- 
tiring efforts to facilitate in every way possible the great task con- 
nected with the removal of the collection from New Haven to Wash- 
ington. 
During the coming year I expect to have two preparators engaged 
in working out the matrix specimens still uncleaned, and confidently 
hope that it may be possible in a few years to have the entire collec- 
l.ion made available for study and a selected series for public exhibition. 
From this latter series the public will be able to form a correct idea as 
to the number, variety and great size of these wonderful extinct 
creatures of the western country, and will undoubtedly be impressed 
with the extent and importance of the work of the palseontological 
divisions of the Geological Survey and the marvelous industry and in- 
telligence displayed by professor Marsh in bringing together this 
great collection. 
Yours respectfully, 
[Signed] S. P. Langley, 
Secretary. 
The Honorable Charles D. Walcott, 
Director United States Geological Survey, 
Washington, D. C. 
Such ipart of the collection as is cleaned is now being 
housed in the museum building proper, and all that is suitable 
will be placed on exhibition, one of the courts of the museum 
having been set aside for the division of vertebrate palgeontol- 
ogy. The remainder of the collection will be worked up as 
rapidly as existing circumstances will permit. In this connec- 
tion it may be of interest to note that it is proposed to model 
from this material a complete restoration of aTriceratops for 
exhibition — by the survey and museum — at the coming Pan- 
American exposition at Buffalo, in 1901. G. p. m. 
