THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



photographers, who will make the negatives to be used in the 

 preparation of his new lectures on luirope. 



The subjects for Professor Bickmore's lectures to teachers 

 and to members of the Museum next fall will be, " The Develop- 

 ment of New York City," "Niagara," " Berlin " and "Potsdam 

 and \'icinity." 



The Duke of Lou bat, to whom the Museum is so much 

 indebted for the development of its collections in Mexican archae- 

 ology, has again shown his interest in American archseology by 

 the liberal endowment of a cliair in Cf)lumbia University, which 

 has been designated as the " Loubat Professorship of American 

 Archaeology." The Trustees of Columbia have appointed as the 

 incumbent Marshall H. Saville, Curator of Mexican and Central 

 American Archaeology in this Museum. This is the third pro- 

 fessorship of American archaeology which the Duke of Loubat 

 has endowed, — the other two being at the University of Berlin, 

 and tlie College of France. 



Professor Saville, is spending the month of July in Mexico. 

 A part of the time will be devoted to the ruins of Mitla in order 

 to complete his observations and obtain additional photographs 

 for tlie report on the explorations recently carried on there by 

 the Loubat Expedition, and to make further studies of Zapotecan 

 antiquities. While he is in the City of Mexico arrangements 

 will be made for an exchange of archaeological specimens be- 

 tween the Museo Nacional and the American Museum. 



H. H. St. Clair, 2d, has gone to Oregon to make an extended 

 stay among the Indians of Siletz, Oregon. Mr. St. Clair is carry- 

 ing on the ethnographical investigation of the Indian tribes of 

 the Far West through the cooperation of the United States 

 Bureau of Ethnology with the American Museum. 



The use of the collections of the Museum by classes of pu])ils 

 from the public schools is increasing. President Jesup has 

 directed that the duplicates of the exhibition series be made 

 accessible to use by the school children. For several years 

 small collections of rocks and minerals have been loaned to 

 teachers asking for them, but tliis has not brought the Museum 



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