THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



NEWS NOTES. 



IE thirty-fourth annual report of the Museum, 

 being the twenty-second report of Morris K. 

 Jesup, Esq., as president, was issued in May. It 

 shows clearly the ■\\'ide scope and the importance 

 of the activities of the institution. Those in- 

 terested may obtain copies upon application. 



Ground is being broken on Manhattan Square, west of the 

 new lecture hall, for the construction of an addition to the Mu- 

 seum building of interest both to members and to the visiting 

 public. The new structure will be a thoroughly modern heating, 

 lighting and power plant, which when completed will add a most 

 attractive, appropriate and instructive feature to the already 

 extensive series of exhibition halls. It is the purpose to have 

 the apparatus for the conversion and transmission of heat, light 

 and power open to the public, and instructively labeled and 

 described. 



On June i6, the Board of Aldermen authorized an additional 

 bond sale to the amount of $i8S,ooo for constructing the ap- 

 proaches to this new wing, for building a foyer to take the place 

 of the old lecture hall and for other additions and improvements 

 about the building. Among these additions will be two assembly- 

 rooms for the use of scientific gatherings and visiting classes. 



Director Bumpus, Professor Allen and Mr. Chapman attended 

 the annual convention of the American Ornithologists' Union, 

 which was held in San Francisco in May. At the convention 

 announcement was made of the award to Professor Allen of the 

 Walker Grand Prize in Natural History by the Boston Society of 

 Natural History. 



In announcing the award to its recipient, Prof. Charles S. 

 Minot, president of the society, wrote as follows : 



" It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Walker 

 Grand Prize has been awarded to you by a unanimous vote of 

 the Council for your able and long-continued contributions to 

 North American Ornithology and Mammalogy. The amount 



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