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[[embossed image of a flying bird]] In the osteological hall a preliminary arrangement of the [[strikethrough]] vertebrate [[strikethrough]] mounted skeletons was made. A series of casts of bones of [[underlined]] Dinoceras [[/underlined]], presented by Prof. O.C. Marsh, was also put on exhibition. In April the authorities of the Army Medical Museum transferred to the Institution the first installment of a collection of about five hundred skulls and 350 skeletons of North American vertebrates. [[strikethrough]] presented in consideration ^[[return]] for certain human crania. [[/strikethrough]] ^[[200]] An agreement was entered by the same establishment to [[strikethrough]] furnish [[/strikethrough]] undertake post-mortem examinations of animals in the flesh received by the Institution and of which the donors desired to know the cause of death. In April the Director offered a reward for the capture of a specimen of a spotted dolphin said to be abundant in the Gulf of Mexico. A fresh specimen was soon afterwards secured through Messrs. Warren & Stearns of Pensacola, Fla., and proved to be remarkably interesting