THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



During the spring there has been in operation at the east end 

 of the Entomological Hall (Hall No. 307) an exhibit which has 

 attracted much attention, particularly from children, who have 

 been visiting the Museum in great numbers. The exhibit con- 

 sists of an observation beehive, which is attached to the window 

 in such a way as to allow the busy inhabitants free ingress and 

 egress, without permitting them to fly about the hall. The hive 

 is provided with glass sides, which ordinarily are covered with 

 wooden panels. When it is desired to see the bees at their work 

 of completing the combs and filling the cells with honey, the 

 wooden panels may be removed. Supplementing the hive, there 

 is a display in a neighboring case which shows in detail all the 

 different stages in the natural manufacture of honey and wax, 

 and a series of different kinds of bees. The Bee-Moth also is 

 shown and a section of a comb which shows the destructive work 

 of this pest. 



The Museum's collection of archaeological material from the 

 Dakotas has been enriched by a series of shell rings, which has 

 come as a gift from A. C. Farrell of North Dakota. These rings 

 were used as ornaments and were found around the neck of one 

 of three skeletons which were exhumed together from a mound 

 on top of Turtle Mountain, near Dunleith, North Dakota. 



Professor H. F. Osborn is spending the summer abroad, 

 chiefly in Italy and England. He will represent the Museum and 

 the New York Zoological Park at the International Zoological 

 Congress, which is to be held at Berne, Switzerland, in August, 

 where he is to lecture upon the recent palccontological discoveries 

 in the Rocky Mountain regions which have led to new conjec- 

 tures as to the phylogeny of several families of mammals. At 

 Cambridge, England, he is to lecture upon the Evolution of the 

 Horse, giving the principal results of the investigations which 

 have been carried on by the Museum under the William C. 

 Whitney Fund. 



Professor Bashford Dean, Honorary Curator of Fishes, is 

 likewise to represent the Museum at the International Zoological 

 Congress in Berne. 



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