MUSEUM NOTES 223 



on llistoirc Xaturcllr dc.s Iimrtrs by M. Olivier (8 volumes, 1789-1808); 

 a set of Palacontographia Italia (16 volumes); The Birds of Tunisia by 

 J. I. S. Whitaker (2 volumes). 



Dr. R. ]M. Anderson of the Steftlnsson-Anderson Arctic expedition is 

 at present on board a whaler bound for San Francisco. He will reach New 

 York in November bringing to the Museum important zoological collec- 

 tions. 



Director Frederic A. Lucas as delegate represented the ^luseum at 

 the de<lication of the New York State Education building, October 17. 



Members of the Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry 

 were the guests of the Museum on September 7. 



The gift of back numbers of the Journal to the files of the library will 

 be appreciated by the Museum. 



During the summer Dr. Clark Wissler has been carrying on archaeologi- 

 cal work among the Blackfoot and Dakota Indians of the Missouri River. 



Through the generosity of Mr. Charles L. Bernheimer, a life member of 

 the Museum, Mr. Andrews was able to purchase in Japan a mounted skin, 

 a skeleton and two skulls of the oriental finless porpoise Neomeris phoco'- 

 noides (Cuvier). This cetacean is represented in but few collections of the 

 world although not infrequently seen in Japanese waters. 



The preliminary report by Frank M. Chapman on the bird collections 

 received from the Colombian expedition has just been published in the 

 Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. It describes thirty- 

 nine species new to science, and is accompanied by a map giving much 

 new information on the region. 



Dr. Chester A. Reeds, for four years instructor in geology at Bryn 

 Mawr College, has been appointed assistant curator in the department of 

 geology and invertebrate palaeontology. He began his active duties on the 

 first of August. 



Miss Mary C. Dickerson, assistant curator of herpetology, spent 

 August in the field in southern Arizona where she secured a representative 

 collection of the reptiles of the region and data on the relation of the reptile 

 fauna to desert conditions for use in future group work. 



The localities in Victoria Land and the Coppermine region occupied by 

 the Eskimo tribes discovered by the Stefansson-Anderson expedition have 

 been indicated on the globe in the North Pacific hall. Also in the exhibition 



