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The Congo expedition under the leadership of Messrs. Lang and Chapin 

 is again at a place where it can receive and send out letters, and the uneasi- 

 ness felt by its friends and supporters in New York is relieved. The 

 expedition reports from Faradje under date of July 27 that its field work 

 is successfully completed and later under date of August 21 that the 

 packing of equipment and collections is well under way for the start 

 with caravan for Avakubi and thence out of Africa by the western coast. 



Director Frederic A. Lucas was appointed by the Executive Com- 

 mittee as a delegate of the American Museum to the meeting of the Museums 

 Association of Great Britain which was held in Dublin, July 8 to 12. Dr. 

 Lucas also represented the Museum at the laying of the corner stone of the 

 new National Museum in Cardiff, Wales. He left New York on June 15 

 and spent more than two months studying the museums of London, Liver- 

 pool, Edinburgh and other cities of the British Isles. 



Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey, curator of geology and invertebrate palaeon- 

 tology, served the Museum as acting director during the absence of 

 Director Lucas. 



Dr. George Grant MacCurdy of Yale University was appointed the 

 representative of the American Museum of Natural History at the eighth 

 session of the Congres Prehistorique de France at Angouleme, August 18 

 to 24. He was also appointed as the Museum's delegate at the fourteenth 

 session of the Congres International d' Anthropologic et d'Archeologie 

 Prehistoriques, held at Geneva the first week in September. 



The library has received as a gift from Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan an 

 interesting manuscript by Richard Bliss, Jr. entitled Descriptions of New 

 Species of Mauritian Fishes: this dates from 1875 and serves in part as 

 letter-press for the volumes of unpublished drawings which the Museum 

 acquired in 1905. 



Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn presented a dedicatory address^ 

 "The State Museum and State Progress," at the opening of the New York 

 State Ediacation buikling, October 15. 



Mr. Anson W. Hard has again presented several very rare and \aluable 

 works in natural history to the library. Among them are the following: 

 Mono(ira])h of the Corariida; or Fainih/ of Rollers l)y H. E. Dresser (1893); 

 Sammlung exotischcr Schnetterlingc by J. Hiibner (3 volumes and 5 sup- 

 plements, with manuscript index by Staudinger, 1806-1837); Etudes 

 d'EntonioIogie by Charles Oberthiir C21 parts, ]S7()~1902), also Etudes de 

 Lepidopterologie Comparee by Charles Oberthiir (1904-1911); Enfoiiiologie 



