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Preparation of exhibition materials for the hall of primitive tetrapods and fossil fishes is essentially complete and laboratory personnel in part have started on the preparation and mounting of mammalian skeletons to be shown in the age of mammals hall.  Mr. Pearce completed restoration of the composite arthrodire skull and is well along in the preparation for mounting a skeleton of the Eocene horse [[underline]] Orohippus [[/underline]]. A second and younger individual of [[underline]] Orohippus [[/underline]] is being prepared in relief by Mr. Sullivan.  This will be displayed in a slab showing the skeleton in the matrix as it was uncovered.  Mr. Ott completed mounting the Oligocene horse [[underline]] Mesohippus [[/underline]] and is progressing well with the mounting of the skeleton of another horse, [[underline]] Parahippus [[/underline]], of Miocene age.  The skeleton of the Cretaceous fish [[underline]] Xiphactinus [[/underline]] which Mr. Guadagni assembled and prepared has been restored and the finishing touches put on by Mr. Hauschildt.  Mr. Guadagni has since repaired an exhibit of [[underline]] Hoplophoneus [[/underline]] and made a cast of the large Brachiosaurus humerus so that a duplicate may be returned to the donor.  Since finishing [[underline]] Xiphactinus [[/underline]], Mr. Hauschildt has worked over a number of smaller slabs of fossil fish and made a series of life-size restorations of [[underline]] Coccosteus [[/underline]].