MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 



great quantity of the finger-sponge, sand-dollars by the hundred, 

 many starfishes of several species, 1,500 sea-urchins (Strongy- 

 locentrotiis drobachiensis) and hundreds of clam-worms {Nereis). 



Professor Franz Boas was one of the general introductory 

 speakers in the Department of Anthropology of the International 

 Congress of Arts and Sciences held at the St. Louis Exposition, 

 September 19 to 25 inclusive. Dr. E. O. Hovey was one of the 

 speakers in the section of Geo-Physics in the same Congress. 



Professor Marshall H. Saville was one of the International 

 Jur}^ of Award to examine and judge the collections in the group 

 of Archaeology at the St. Louis Exposition. 



Among recent noted visitors at the Museum may be mentioned 

 Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingfiirst and Prince von Ratibon and 

 their parties; Prince Pu Lun, Imperial Chinese Commissioner 

 to the St. Louis Exposition and the Chinese Ambassador; Mr. 

 Heromich Shugio, Imperial Japanese Commissioner to the 

 St. Louis Exposition, and Professor Yoshitaro Watanabe of the 

 University of Tokyo; Professor A. C. Haddon of the University 

 of Cambridge ; Professors Edouard Seler and Karl von den Steinen 

 of the University of Berlin; Professor L. ]\Ianouvrier of the 

 School of Anthropology of Paris ; a delegation of forty-two Italian 

 electrical engineers who were sent by the government of Italy 

 for a month's tour of the United States; Dr. Robert Bell, Director 

 of the Canadian Geological Surv^ey ; Dr. Hjalmar Stolpe, Director 

 of the Royal Ethnographic Museum at Stockholm ; ]\Ir. I. Jurriaan 

 Kok, Director of the Royal IManufactcr}^ of Porcelain and Art 

 Potterv^ at Roxenburg, The Hague, Holland; Dr. G. Bauer of 

 the Royal Ethnological Museum, Berlin; Dr. C. W. Kimm.ins, 

 Chief Inspector of the Education Department of the London 

 County Council; IM. Henri Moissan of Paris, and Dr. A. Smith 

 Woodward of the British Museum f Natural History). 



The Honorable Nicholas Pike has deposited in the Museum 

 six volumes containing original water-color representations of 

 more than 400 of the fishes inhabiting the waters of Mauritius. 

 This valuable series of sketches was made by ]\Ir. Pike between 



