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THE MUSEUM. 



A Monthly Magazine devoted to Ornithology, 



Oology, Mollusca, Echinodermata, 



Mineralogy and Allied 



Sciences. 



^A^alter F. Webb, Editor and Pub'r, 

 Albion, N. Y. 



Correspondence and items of interest on above top- 

 ics, as well as notes on the various Museums of the 

 World— views from same, discoveries relative to the 

 handling and keeping of Natural History material, 

 descriptive habits of various species, are solicited 

 from all. 



Make articles as brief as possibl*^ and as free from 

 technical terms as the subjects will allow. All letters 

 will be promptly answered. 



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NOTES. 



There are 30,000 species of recent 

 and 7,439 species of fossil plants in 

 the herbarium of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution at Washin"ton, D. C. 



In the museum at Christchurch, 

 New Zealand there is a perfect skele- 

 ton of the Moa, a bird believed to 

 have become extinct 2,000 \'ears ago. 

 It measures sixteen feet in height. 



The museum of the State University 

 of Missouri located at Columbia, Mo. 

 contains departments of Mineralogy, 

 Geology, Botany and Zoology. The 

 buildings are 100x140 in size and are 

 entirely fireproof, steam heated, elec- 

 tric lighted modern buildings. This is 

 probably one of the finest museum 

 buildings in this country. 



Two Bonaparte Gulls were shot 

 within the village of Albion during 

 April and brought into our office to 

 mount. One was in full plumage. 



We have received the announce- 

 ment of Tlic Naturalist and Collector, 

 a new Naturalist Magazine to be pub- 

 lished by the Shoop Publishing Co. of 

 Abingdon, 111. It is to be a 32 page 

 journal brim full of interesting reading 

 matter and we predict for it a full 

 measure of success. 



We are very sorry that our brother 

 editor of the Nidiologist has felt 

 obliged to let himself loose further i)i 

 re California Vulture. From the re- 

 ports coming in during April and fore- 

 part of May, he may be called upon to 

 produce some of his certified checks 

 before Fall. We have a fine ^^g of 

 the Jabiru, a specimen practically un- 

 known in North American collections, 

 which we are thinking of placing in his 

 hands to boom. 



3000 new species of wasps, beetles, 

 spiders, dragonflies and other insects, 

 a new species of Perepatus that sup- 

 plies the missing link between the 

 worm and centipeds and two Sierra 

 Madre Peaks before unnamed form 

 part of the results of the exploring ex- 

 pedition to Lower California and Mex- 

 ico which was sent out by California 

 Academy of Sciences in charge of Dr. 

 Gustav Eisen and Prof. Frank Vaslit. 

 There are over 40,000 natural history 

 specimens stored in this academy and 

 when arranged and classified this in- 

 stitution will have the largest collection 

 of Lower California and Mexican na- 

 tural history specimens in the world. 



