MUSEUM NOTES 



Since the last issue of the Journal the followintj persons have been 

 elected to membership in the Museum : 



PdfroH, Mr. Johx a. Grossbeck; 



Life Members, Mrs. Christopher M. Bell, Mrs. Joiix G. McCi'l- 

 LOUGH, Mrs. James McLean, Mrs. William F. Milton, Mrs. William 

 W' alter Phelps, Mrs. Byam K. Stevens, Miss Rosixa S. Hovt, Miss 

 Ida H. Ogilvie, Hon. John B. Jackson, Dr. Austin Flint, Jr., and 

 Messrs. Richard Canfield, Edward Pearce Casey, Percival Farquhar, 

 Max C. Fleischmann, Dallett Fuguet, George L. Harrison, Jr., 

 Walter Schuyler Kemeys, Charles W. Leng, John D. Ryan and L. 

 Stuart Wing; 



Sustaining Members, Messrs. Louis Brey amd J. K. Robinson; 



Annual Members, Mrs. John S. Barnes, Mrs. F. Forsch, Mrs. Thomas 

 Hastings, Mrs. George Grant Mason, Mrs. Wilton Merle-Smith, 

 Mrs. Theodore F. Randolph, Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid, Mrs. Samuel 

 Sloan, Mrs. Andrew H. Smith, Mrs. Frederick A. Snow, Mrs. Ed- 

 wards Spencer, Mrs. E. C. Sturges, Mrs. George H. Taylor, Miss 

 R. A. PoLHEMus, Miss Henrietta Prentiss, Miss Cornelia Prime, 

 Miss Josephine C. Smith, Rev. W. H. Owen, Jr., and Messrs. Ashbel 

 H. Barney, Chester A. Braman, Rey^nold Cohen, C. L. Collins, 

 Richard C. Colt, Frederick H. Cone, Russel Dart, L. C. Deming, 

 Robert A. Fliess, George J. Foran, A. A. Fowler, Arthur H. Hahlo, 

 Frank B. Higiiet, Caspar W. Hodgson, George F. Kleinberger, 

 Wolcott G. Lane, John E. ALvdden, Chase Mellen, David M. Min- 

 zesheimer, a. Henry Mosle, James M. Motley, W. P. Norton, William 

 A. O'Connor, Ario Pardee, Eugene C. Pomeroy, Ruel W. Poor, 

 William B. Potts, Richard C. Rathborne, G. Theodore Roberts, 

 Charles G. Rockwood, William H. Rockwood, Herbert A. Scheftel, 

 J. C. Sloane, William H. Souls, Gino C. Speranza, Howard W. Starr, 

 S. Frederic Taylor, J. H. Townsexd and Frederick K. Vreelaxd. 



Ground was broken March 20 for the construction of tlie new southeast 

 wing facing Central Park, which will add four new exhibition floors to the 

 Museum, the first to be devoted to the geography and life of the sea. 

 Connected with the new wing will be l)uilt also a structure to serve as a 

 whale hall, with a balcony and an arched roof through which all the light 

 will enter and of such ])roportions that the length (174 feet) will be twenty 

 feet greater than that of the wing itself and the width (120 fe(>t) twice as 

 great. The new wing and the whale hall are a part of the comprehensive 

 plan which has resulted from years of careful study given to the sul>ject by 

 the president and trustees who constitute the connnittec on buildings and 

 plans. 



