THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



The Chukchee are fond of games and contests of all sorts. 

 Wrestling and various ball-games are well-known amusements 

 of the elders. Among children the favorite toys are dolls and 

 tops. 



Specimens of the objects used in the sports and by the children 

 are shown in the collection which is on exhibition in the Siberian 

 Hall (Hall No. loi). 



THE STORER COLLECTION OF SHELLS. 



]]HE Department of Conchology has received as a 

 gift from Mr. Albert H. Storer of this city the 

 valuable collection of shells which was made by 

 his father. The elder Mr. Storer through his con- 

 nections with shipping interests had many oppor- 

 tunities of obtaining shells from the sailors and captains of ships, 

 in the days when some handsome species were more common 

 than they are now. The Storer Collection comprises about 3,500 

 specimens. Its importance to the Museum lies in the representa- 

 tion of the more showy genera, such as Cypr^a, Voluta, Melo, 

 Cymbium, Conus, Harpa, Mitra, Oliva, Strombus, Scalaria, 

 Murex, Turbo and Phasianella. The examples of these and 

 other genera, on account of their individual variation or per- 

 fection, will prove to be attractive additions to the exhibition 

 series. The marine forms greatly predominate over the land 

 shells, as might be expected from the manner in which the 

 collection was made. 



DuRiXG February and March there was on view at the Museum 

 the model of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, Syria, which 

 the Rev. D. Stuart Dodge, D.D., has had made for the exhibit of 

 Christian Missions at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at 

 St. Louis. The model is on a scale of one-sixteenth of an inch to 

 the foot and gives an excellent idea of this educational institu- 

 tion, which is one of the most influential on the shores of the 

 Mediterranean. 



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