102 Tin: AMIiniCAN MUSECM .lOlliSAL 



At the Special Mcctiiiu of tlic I'Acculi\c ( Oniiiiit tec on I'Cliniai'y L'O, 

 1911, 'S\v. •IdIiii a. (rrosslx'ck was a|)i)()iiitc(l Assistant in In\ frtcl)|-ate 

 Zoology. 



Mr. Alhkkt Opeuti, official artist of the Poary Exjx'ditions of ISOG 

 and 1897, has presented to the Museum twenty -four sketches in oil, slu)wiiig 

 the excavation of the ureat nieteorit(> " Aliin'uhito" and its transfer to the 

 ship ready for the joiUMiey to New ^'ork. 



Till: MisKf.M is indehted to Mi'. \\'aher Winans for tlie ,ij;irt of a series 

 of wild hoar ineludinti' adidts and yount;- of both sexes, collected with a view 

 to their use in the construction of a hai)itat ji'roup. He has also sent us two 

 fine specimens of the European red deer. All of these specimens were taken 

 in the Sachsenwald, Friedrichsridie, (iermaiiy. These specimens are tiie 

 first good examples of the sj^ecies that the Musetnn has received. 



A Club Room for Mkmbers was opened on February 28. This room 

 situated on the third floor near the elevators is one of the most attractive 

 in the building and has been furnished to serve as Far as may l)e the comfort 

 of the Museum's patrons. A formal presentation of the i)ortrait of the 

 Plonorable Joseph H Choate, painted by the Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy and 

 presented to the Aluseum by the artist, was made the occasion of the open- 

 ing and of an informal reception. The other portraits owned by the Mu- 

 seum hang in this room also at present, awaiting the time when the extension 

 of the Museum building will allow a Portrait Hall especially designed and 

 lighted where can \)v told the history of the ^Museum as sliown in its founders 

 and l)enefactors. 



^VIiss ]\Iary Lois Kissetj. has just returned from a fotn* months' trip 

 to the Pima Indians of southern Arizona and brings with her a basketry 

 collection in which are several artistic "carrying baskets" woxcn with dyed 

 thread made of maguey fiber and six "medicine baskets" of Papago make. 

 The latter are rare in collections because of the great difHcidty that exists 

 in obtaining them. 



Mrs. R. C). Stebbixs hits recently presented to the Musemn the col- 

 lection made by the late Dr. R. O. Stebbins of t]i(> Arctic Club of America. 

 The gift is largely ethnological, comprising Eskimo, Javanese, Chinese 

 and Plains Indians material, but includes also a collection of minerals as 

 well as specimens of mammals and in\ertebrates. 



