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3. [[letterhead]] UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Under direction of THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Washington [[/letterhead]] tution the first installment of a collection of about four hundred skulls and three hundred and fifty skeletons of North American vertebrates. An agreement was entered into by the same establishment to undertake post mortem examination of animals in the flesh received by the Institution and of which donors desired to know the cause of death. In April also 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 received through Messrs. Warren and Steams of Pensacola, Fla., and proved to be remarkably interesting, scientifically. On the