MUSEUM NOTES 117 



At the forty-thinl annual meeting- of tlie trustees of the Musi'uni tlie 

 foHowing elections to membership were made in consideration of gifts or 

 services rendered to the Museum : 



Mr. Ogden Mills, associate benefactor, in recognition of his gift of 

 the Catlin collection of Indian paintings; 



Mrs. Isaac B. Dyckman, patron, in recognition of lici- contribution 

 for the preparation and pul)lication of a bil)liography on fishes; 



Hls (Jrack, thp: Dikkof Bedford, fellow, for his generosity in present- 

 ing to the Museum two fine examples of the Brjevalsky horse, a species 

 which has hitherto l)een unrepresented in the Museum collections; 



Mh. Anthony R. Ki'skr, fellow, in i-ecognition of liis offer to present to 

 the Museum a collection of j)heasants of the world; 



LlKi'TKNAXT (tKokck T. Emmon's, honorary fellow, in recognition of 

 his ser\ices in furnishing inforn)ati()n in regar<l to the Indians of the North- 

 west Coast and in jjromoting field work in this region; 



Mh. (iKokcjk Bird (iRINxkll, honorary fellow, in i-ccogiiition of his 

 serxices in the (le\cloi)n)eiit of the Museum's dej)artment of aiithi'oiiology ; 



Sir Ernest Shackleton, life member, in recognition of his splendid 

 achievements in the field of exploration, as well as for his generosity in 

 presenting to the Museum a collection of minerals from the South Polar 

 region; 



Dr. Leonard C. Sanford, life meml)er, in recognition of his generosity 

 in placing his superb collection of birds of the world at the disposal of the 

 curators of the Museum for study and reference. 



The ^Museum has secured, through the generosit\- of Mr. .1. V. Morgan, 

 Jr., the collections of minerals and meteorites left by the late Stratford 

 (". H. Bailey of Oscawana-on-IIudson. Mr. Bailey had been an inde- 

 fatigable collector for many years and had assembled representatives of 

 nearly three hundred falls and finds of meteorites, at least twenty-one of 

 which are new to tlH> Museum's already great foyer collection. The gem of 

 the Bailey collection is tiie aerolite or stone meteorite known as Tondian- 

 nock. This is a snudi mass weighing about three and one-c{uarter pounds, 

 but it is nine-tenths of the entire stone that was found in ISdii on Tom- 

 hannock Creek in Rensselaer County not far from Troy, X. ^ . It was first 

 described by Mr. Bailey in 1SS7 and lias always l)een highly ])ri/,ed. 



The clay model for a i)ust of Peary has been executed by William 

 Coupcr and is now on its way to Florence to be cut in Carrara marble. 

 The bust is a gift from Mrs. Morris K. Jesup and will take its place among 

 the other marble !)Usts in the niches in memoi-ial hall. 



.\ NEW group for the Darwin hall will shortly be placed on exhibition. 

 It is designed to illustrate the struggle for existence and the complexity 



