;:!() Tin: .\Mi:i{/('.\.\ Mrsr.rM jornx.if. 



TlloMA^ H. Si'inKKK. J'lllN DwkM'kHT \\'liKKI.l.K, A. Ll DI.oW WllITK 



and Klm()1{k a. Wii.i.kts, Dks. Wai.tkh I^hooks Hhoinkk, A. Monak 

 Lksskr, Moukis Ma\(;ks, Maixoi^m M( Lka.\, Stkwaht Paton and 

 Thomas M. Wkkd, Rk\. William (Jukknoicii Tiiavkk, Hmxohable 

 Hknhy !^. Qi iNBY and M.mks. Johv I{. I )ukm.!., Idiin IIkxkv IIwimond 

 and Rkginali) df. K<)^■F.^. 



TllK/'AdKuI- Ma.\IMal>" 1)> I'rcsidcnt H( iiry l-"air(icl(l ()>l)()ni has coiir- 

 t'roiii the press of tlu' Maciiiillim < Ompany and will r('C(i\"(' nolic*- in a 

 later issnc of the Joikxal. 



Thkkk has jnst Keen ])resenled to the American Museum of Natural 

 History and placed on exhihition in the Morgan-Tit^'any (iem Room a 

 specimen of the new i^vw Morj^anite (rose beryl). It is a lont; oval stone 

 of ricli rose coloi' and weighs 'u\ carats. This <;em was named hy Dr. 

 (ieorge l-'rederick Kunz, the Honorary Curator of (iems of the .\merican 

 Museum, at a meeting- of the New York Academy of Sciences on Decemher 



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1)ihf:(T()K Hki'.mox (akky P>i .mits has recently Keen decorated hy 

 His Majesty, King- Charles of iioumania, with the (Jrand Cross of the 

 Connnander of the Order of the Crown. This highest rank of the Order 

 is bestowed upon Director Bumi)us in recognition of his well-known ser- 

 vices to science. 



Dn. .\. I). (Jahay of New \(»rk ( ity has presented to the Museum a 

 valuable collection of grotnid and polished shells from California and Japan. 

 These sjx'cimens vith their convolutions and stiperb nacre make objects 

 of great beauty. They will be installetl in cei-taiu sections of the Hall of 

 Mollusca, illu>trating tlie ecoiionu'c and ornamental uses of shells. 



During the past month the Mu.seuni has received, as a gift from Mr 

 D. C. Staples, a small but very interesting collection of archieologieal and 

 ethnological material which conies from the Pro\inces of Esmeraldas and 



Maiiabi in the extreme iiorthci-ii part of ( Olombia, South .Vuk rica. 



Thk (iiild \\ KLFAiiK HxHiHiT will be held during January in the 

 Seventy-first Regiment Armory, New York City. At this exhibit the 

 Mu.seum will illustrate the work it is doing in cfuiperation with the public 

 .schools. It will show the loan collections sent to the schools, photographs 

 and descrij)tions of the Children's Room at the Museum and of the Room 

 for the Blind, drawings and models made by children in these rooms and 



