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Mr. Roy C. Andrews will \vn\v (iurin<,' the last week of Xovcinber 

 on an expedition to the Orient. He will visit tlie whalinj^ stations of south- 

 ern Korea, then outfit at Seoul and travel into the mountains of north 

 Korea, a region unknown /,()()lo<iieally. 



The installation in the new Hall of ^Minerals is almost eonipleted, 

 and more than thice thousand speeimens are brought to view. Among 

 recent additions are the remarkable tarbuttite (basic zinc phosphate) 

 associated with vanadinite from Rhodesia, Africa, a beaut it'ul white beryl, 

 enclosing tourmaline, from Pala, ( alifornia, and important sjx'cimcns of 

 benitoite and nci)tunite from the same locality. 



The Museum recently acquired through purclia.se from .Mr. .luan E. 

 Reyna of Ithaca, New York, some interesting fragments of ancient Mexican 

 codices. The fragments were taken from the walls of a church at Tlaquil- 

 tenango, Morelos, and are al)Out one hunch'ed in number. They represent 

 parts of several manuscripts on maguey paper and probably date from 

 soon after the arrival of the Spaniards. The church in question was com- 

 pleted in the year b540. The manuscripts had apparently been collected 

 by the priests and j)asted face down on the walls of the cloisters instead 

 of being destroyed outright as was the usual custom. The collection is of 

 peculiar value because the point of origin is so clearly indicated. Tlaquil- 

 tenango is situated in the ancient territory of the Tlahuican nation, a 

 branch of the great Xahuan stock. 



Dr. J. R. W.\lkeh, Tnited States Indian Physician, of Pine Ridge 

 Reservation, South Dakota, has been a voluntary contributor to the De- 

 partment of Anthropology for several years. He is especially interested 

 in the mythology and ceremonies of the Dakota Indians, among whom he 

 has lived for thirteen years. During the past year he gathered some four 

 hundred pages of manuscript written by Indians who have learned to write 

 their own language in the Rigg's alphabet. These manuscripts contain 

 unusual material upon the most complex and sacred of Indian conceptions. 



During the smnmer Professor C-Pl A. Winslow devoted considerable 

 time to the study of an epidemic of a peculiar acute tonsillitis which affected 

 some 1500 persons and caused 50 deaths in the vicinity of Boston and which 

 proved to be due to an infected milk supply. This outbreak of tonsillitis 

 is the first of the kind in this country and the most serious ever recorded 

 anvwhere. 



