MUSEUM NOTES 



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

 elected to membership in the Museum: 



Life Members, Messrs. Clarence H. Eagle, C. H. Ruddock and John 

 G. Worth; 



Annual Members, Baroness Raoul de Graffenried, Mrs. Gorham 

 Bacon, Mrs. William E. Bond, Mrs. George W. Burleigh, Mrs. Wil- 

 liam Allen Butler, Mrs. George E. Chisolm, Mrs. Sidney J. Jennings, 

 Mrs. Minnie A. McBarron, Mrs. Abram N. Stein, Mrs. James R. 

 Whiting, Mrs. C. R. Woodin, Miss Anna Bogert, Miss Theodate Pope, 

 Miss Mary F. Reuter, Rev. Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Dr. E. B. Bronson, 

 Dr. Ethan Flagg Butler, Dr. George W. Crile, Dr. Frank Overton 

 and Messrs. S. Reed Anthony, Clinton T. Bissell, George Whitefield 

 Blood, Stanley D. Brown, Belmore Browne, Frederick H. Clarke, 

 Edwin Corning, Eugene Delano, Jr., Guy du Val, William Crownin- 

 shield Endicott, William Floyd, John H. Inman, William Forrest 

 Keyes, Albert M. Lilienthal, Edward Lindsey, W. S. McCrea, IVI. 

 Mack, W. N. McMillan, W. Forbes Morgan, Jr., John M. Phillips, 

 Albert Houghton Pratt, H. S. Putnam, George W. Rogers, Morgan 

 R. Ross, Benjamin F. Seaver, Louis Agassiz Shaw, Theodore A. Simon, 

 Charles Wilson Taintor, Harry W. Thedford, J. V. Van Santvoord, 

 Frederick B. Van Vorst and Amasa Walker. 



President Henry Fairfield Osborn has just returned to the Museum 

 from a tour through northern Italy, France and northwestern Spain. He 

 visited several museums, including the Natural History Museum of Toulouse 

 and the Musee Oceanographique of Monaco, the latter forming the model 

 for the new oceanograj^hic hall of the American ]\Iuseum. 



The chief feature of his journey was the inspection of Upper Palaeolithic 

 caverns, those of the P^^renees with Professor Emile Cartailhac, of the 

 Dordogne with L'Abbe Henri Breuil, and of northwestern Spain with 

 Professor Hugo Obermaier. In the French caverns he was accompanied 

 by Professor George G. MacCurdy of Yale University, who is representing 

 the American Museum in the Paljeolithic of Europe. At the invitation of 

 Comte Begouen of Toulouse, President Osborn and Professor IVIacCurdy 

 joined the first party to enter the newly discovered cavern known as Tuc 

 d'Audoubert, which contains more than fifty drawings of the mammals of 

 Upper Paheolithic times. In this tour all the principal caverns and stations 

 of the Upper Palreolithic were visited, and through the courtesy of the 

 leading French anthropologists who conducted these journeys important 

 arrangements were made for the development of the American Museum 

 collections. An archaic stone carving of the horse of Aurignacian age was 

 secured for the Museum as well as a great collection of Palieolithic flints. 



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