The American Museum Journal 



Vol. hi. JUI.V, 1903 No. 4 



TH tliis numlier the Jdurxal Ijegins its appearance 

 as a quarterly. It is proposed to have each part 

 contain a larger number of pages than heretofore, 

 and the publication of the guide leaflets will be 

 continued. The p()]iular demand for the guide 

 leaflets is ver\' gratifving, about 2250 copies having been sold at 

 the entrances to the building dinging the first six months of this 

 year. The usefulness of the guide leaflets has been extended, 

 furthermore, by their republication in whole or in part in other 

 periodicals, among which may be mentioned the "Scientific 

 American," "Rider and Driver," "Globus" and "World's 

 Work." 



The (iuide Leaflet issued as the supplement to the current 

 number of the Journal has been prepared by Chaides W. Mead, 

 of the Department of Archaeology, and pertains to "The Musi- 

 cal Instruments of the Incas." Mr. Mead has based his studies 

 upon the remarkably large collection of prehistoric Peruvian mu- 

 sical instruments which was assembled on the Henry Villard 

 and other expeditions. The Museum's collection of these ob- 

 jects and potter}' vessels showing their use, installed on the 

 third floor of the west wing, is thought to be the largest and 

 best in existence. 



MARTINIOUE AXD ST. VIXTEXT REVISITED. 



The year 1902 was noteworthy for the large niimber of vol- 

 canic outbursts reported from various parts of the world, but it 

 will be remembered particularly for the eruptions which took 

 place from the volcanoes Pelee on the island of Martinique and 



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