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Mh. ( 11 \i;i.i.> 1.. Hkkmikimkk has Itccii made a l.ilc Mciiilx r in i-cc();j;iii- 

 tioii of lii> coiitiMliiiI inn for cetacean work in .la|)an. 



Mh. (llAKl.l.s .1. I-]i)i;h of Palmira lias heen elected a Life Meniher 

 lic'cause of the courtesies he extended to the Mnseinn's e\|)edition to the 

 United States of Coloinhia. 



'SIh. \. Stkkansson reports from the 1 )ease Ki\cr, Arctic America, 

 wonderfid success in ethnological work. lie has disco\-ered a "new" 

 P>skinio tril)e, one that has never seen a white man; he also finds a Scandi- 

 navian-like people in ^ ietoria Land. Throtiyli the courtesy of the English 

 travelers, [Messrs. Melvill and llornhy, who liave a l)oat on Great Hear 

 Lake, tlie collections will he carried onT to Fort Norman and the Mackenzie 

 River. Mr. Stefansson's letters will he quoted in a later Jourx.vl. 



The Museum has in press a Guide Leaflet on the methods of making 

 the wax flowers, lea\'es and fruits on display in the Forestry Hall and used 

 as accessories in liahitat ufoups. 



A SERIES of eight lectures on evolution by Professor Henry E. Crampton, 

 formerly delivered as the Hewitt lectures of Columbia I'niversity, has l)een 

 l)rought out in hook form hy the Columbia L^niversity Press. 



Professor Hexry E. Cramptox returned September 1!) from a biologi- 

 cal expedition to South America and tlie West Indies. He succeeded in 

 reaching Moimt Roraima, at the junction of the Venezuela, Brazilian and 

 Guiana l)or(lers. ISIr. Roy \Y. Miner and Dr. Frank E. Liitz were also 

 members of the expedition, tlie former returning from Dominica in July 

 and the latter from Kaieteur Falls in British Guiana, in August. 



Dr. Louis Hussakof spent .several weeks collecting fossil fishes in the 

 Devonian formations of Kentucky and Ohio. Some \alual)le material 

 was obtained including a number of specimens of the giant Arthrodira, 

 Titan iciiflii/s. The expedition was made possible through the Cleveland 

 H. Dodge Fund. 



The following appointments have been made: Mr. J. B. Foulk(\ Super- 

 intendent of Building; Mr. Harry F. Beers, Assistant Superintendent of 

 Building; Mr. George X. Pindar, Registrar. 



Mi{. Harlax I. S.MiTii, Associate ( lu-ator in the l)ej)artment of Anthro- 

 pology, has resigned his position to accej^t a ctiratorship in the new museum 

 at Ottawa. 



