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Sit-'!l<iiniii<i MniihiTs, ^Fu. Nelson \V. Gukkmh r ;iih1 AThs. Gkoik'.k W. 

 PeuKIXs; 



AntiiKil Mnnhirs, Rt. Keys. William Ckoswell Do.we and ^VILLIAM 

 LA^vl{K^•(•E, Rev. \V. T. Crocker, Cols. Os.mix La'H{oi{E and R<jhert 

 B. Woodward, Drs. John- Aspell and Ernest \'. IIimhard, Messrs. 

 Paul Baerwald, M. W. IJknjamix, Hknrv .1. Hehmikim, ]}. G. Brai.ne, 

 Edmund I\I. Brennan, Fred T. Husk, James G'. Cannon, Henno Cohen, 

 Max Cohen, Hermann Conheim, W. R. Cross, Lorenzo Daniels, J. R. 

 DeLamar, O. L. Do.mmerkh, Morris I)\vore:tzky, James M. Eder, 

 Newman Err, Henry Esrerg, S. A. Fatman, Walton Ferguscjn, Lons 

 L. FiRUSKi, Pliny Fisk, Isaac D. Fletcher, Thomas Powell Fowler, 

 Mortimer J. Fox, Alexander von Gontard, Percy T. Griffith, M. 

 Grundner, Moritz Hilder, Charles W. Hoffman, Clarence J. Hous- 

 MAN, Edwin S. Kassing, Otto Kaufmann, Fred T. Kellers, James 

 Gore King, Herbert R. Limburg, Thomas J. McBride, Robert H. 

 ]\IcCuRD\', p]. A. McGuire, Edwin G. Merrill, Julian H. Meyer, E. 1). 

 ^Morgan, P^lam Ward Olxey, Phillips Phoenix, J. Harsen Purdy, 

 William B. Rogers, S. S. Rosenstamm, Thomas Smidt, Pierre J. Smith, 

 Howard Townsend, Frank A. Vanderlip, J. Trowbridge Vreden burgh, 

 A. Wiedenbach, William G. Willcox, Mmes. Charles B. Alexander, 

 George Blagden, Joshua S. Brush, C. H. Coster, Charles D. Dk key, 

 H. WixTHROP Gray, Hexry' W. Hardox, J. B. Fraxcis Herreshoff, 

 Christiax a. Herter, John S. Kexxedy, E. H. Laxdox, Agxes Lathers, 

 Amory Leland, Payson Merrill, P^rederick Pearsox, Stephex Pell, 

 Hexry Phipps, N. T. Pulsifer, Charles Cary Rumsey, James Speyer, 

 Benjamin Strong, Henry W. Taft, Misses Addisox Mitchell and 

 Elvixe Rkhahd. 



Captain W. H. Cottingiiam, Mr. Harold J. (Ook and ^L{. Joseph J. 

 Nltxan have recently been elected Life Members in rec()<;nition of ser\ices 

 rendered to the Museum's field parties in All)erta, Nebraska and British 

 Guiana resjieetivejy. 



Mr. Stefanssox of the Museum's Arctic Jvxpcchtioii rei)(trts a \-ery 

 interesting discovery of an archa'ological nature at iiis last winti-r camp 

 near Pt. Stivens, Parry Peninsula. Accortling to his report a great deal of 

 pottery is found upon old \illage sites, some at a depth of several feet. This 

 pottery is of similar type to that found among and lately manufactured by 

 some of the Alaskan P^skimos. Pottery has so far not been reported from 

 any of the Central and Pvastern Pvskimos. It was formerly assumed that 

 the presence of pottery among the Alaskan Eskimos was to be explained as 

 indicating forms copied from Siberian or neighboring American tribes. The 



