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southwestern states. It may e\cn Ix- |)()ssil)le tliat the jx'arl shell from an 

 imi)ortant pearl slu'll industry of this region can he transj)l;inte(i to Florida. 

 There will he work on shore also. The Peiiinsnla is se\"en hundred and 

 fifty miles lon>; and will he studied aloiiu' ixith coasts. During' the jjrogress 

 of the \essel along these coasts collecting ])arties will he landed each day 

 to procure the manunals, hirds, reptiles and fishes of the re<iion, which are 

 of especial interest to naturalists hecause so larj^'c a miniher of them are 

 peculiar to th(> locality. Altoii'ether, it is expected that the work of the 

 expediti( n will hring large results along- fishery, oceanographic and l)io- 

 loijical lines. 



MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 



SiNCK our last issue the h)llowing persons have heen elected to meniher- 

 ship m the Museum: 



Benefactors, Mr. J. riKUi'OXT Morgan and Mrs. Mukri.s K. Jesup; 



Patrons, Mr. Andrew Carnegie and ]\Ihs. Kdw ard H. Harriman; 



Life Members, Messrs. William Gould Brokaw, V. Ambrose Clark, 

 Michael Jenkins, John Rogers, Philip A. Rollins, Walter Winans, 

 Mrs. ^Marian von R. Phelps, Miss Frances von R. Phelps and Master 

 Phelps von R. Phelps; 



Sustaining Member, Miss Susan D. Griffith; 



Annual Members, Messrs. E. B. Crowell, Gherardi Davis, J. Wil- 

 liam Greenwood, Townsend Jones, T. W. Lamont, Nicoll Ludlow, 

 Frank J. Muhlfeld, Joseph H. Spafford, Edward W. Sparrow, Edwards 

 Spencer, Charles H. Werner, Drs. Charles Remsex and Arthur L. 

 Holland, ]\Imes. Theo. B. Bleecker, Charles S. Faikc hild, Russell 

 Wellmax Moore and Payne Whitney. 



Dr. J. a. Allex was ajjpointed Acting Director i)ro tem at a Special 

 ^Meeting of the Execnti\c Committee, Fehruary 20, 1!)11, tor the period 

 of Dr. Townsend's ahsence on the Alhatross ex])edition to Lower California. 



L\ its meeting of Jamiary IS, 1011, the Executive Committee of the 

 Board of Trustees a])i)roved the following Appointive Committee on Puhlic 

 Health named hy President Oshorn: Dr. Simon Flexner, Mr. John M. 

 Glenn, Mr. J. Waldo Smith. 



The following jx-rsons have contrihuted to the South American Bird 

 Fund and have heen made Life Memhers of the Museinn in recognition 

 of their gifts: Messrs. George B. Case, Evans >L Evans, W. F. Patter- 

 son, George P. Shiras and F. C. Walcott. 



