MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 



SiN( K our last issiK llic I'olluw iiiu ixm'soiis liaxc Keen cIcctiMl to iiicinlx-r- 

 sliip in tlu' Musi'iiiii : 



/.//( Minihtrs. Mkssi{s. Allison \'. AHMoru. Akiihk 1 ). (;,\I^\^, 

 \\iLLL\M Pkhkins W'adswohi II and (Ikn. Thomas Hi huaud; 



Sii,sf(tiniii(i Mriiihcr, Mh. Kdwaho .1. Di. ('oim-li; 



AtniiKil MiDihir.'), Mkssks. PiiiLii'(i. Hah ri,i;ii , .Ii i.n s Hknkv (Oiikn, 

 William X. (Oiikn, Hahhv A. ("isiiiNd, .Ii i.n s (Joldman, I-jxiak IIiidk- 

 KOPER, Fkkdkhk K. Hr.Mi'UHKYs, ('. I). IlrvLKH, Mkiiai.i. .Ikxkins. 

 S. Kell?:h, John Dk^dkn Kiskh, William Mikhkll, William S. Mykks, 

 Charles .1. Ohkk.maikk, .Ioiin ()ffkk.\l\n, Kdmind Pkni'old. !•". Pokl, 

 James H. S( iimi.i zkl. K. A. S( hxahkl, Hakpek Sii.liman. Charles L. 

 Tiffany, John J. 1). Thknoh, Drs. Charles liRowxE, L. Pierce Clark, 

 James Morley Hitzrot, William J. Mersereau, Teofilo Parodi, 

 A. Emil Schmitt, Hex. Dk. Walter Thompson, Mmes. William Lanman 

 Bill, B. Ogden Chisolm, RrFrs Cole, Clarence M. Hyde, Samuel 

 Keyser, William X. Kremer, Joseph Shard low, and Miss Edith M. 



KoHLSAAT. 



President Henry Fairfield Osborx was made Curator P^meritus oF 



The Department of \Vrtel)rate Palreontolo^y at the meetin<r of tlie Exeeii- 



ti\-e ( Ommittee on January IS, 1911. 



The Xkw \'oHK /o(iLo(;i( al Soc ikty has presented to the Museum a 

 series of six hunch-ed animal pliotoji'raphs taken from time to time throujih 

 a lone: period of years at the Zoolofjical Park. 



One of the attraetixc features of tlie openino- of the new South Sea 

 Ishmds Hall on Jamiary 2."), 1911, was a eolleetioii of thirt> -one paintings 

 made anion<i- the South Sea Islands hy the late John La I-'ariic and loaned 

 hy ^Ti'-s (xraee Judith HariK s. 



Mi;. ('iixm.Ks L. Hkkniikimi-.h has recellTlx presented to the Museum 

 a si)lendi(! collection of whaliiiii' imj)leiiients inchidini;- harpoons and a 

 l)()inl) fiun; also, hy the efforts of Mr. |-'rank Wood of .Xew iiedford, Mass., 

 a complete outfit for a whaliiii;- hoat has heeii secured through exchange. 

 These are important additions to the Museum"> collections, for even at 

 this date it is exceedingly difficidt to get many of the articles which went 

 to make up the e(|uir)ment used hy the deej) sea whalers of Xew Herlford 

 and a few years from now will he (piite impossilile. 



.\i the meeting of the E.\ecuti\-e ('onunittec on January IS, |9||, 

 Miss Mary C. Dickerson was appointed Curator of the Department of 

 Woods and Forestry and Assistant Curator in Herpetology. 



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