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case at the right of the globe are displayed the clothing, weapons and other 

 objects representative of the culture of these tribes [See back of cover]. 

 These objects would tell in themselves, if there were no other evidence, that 

 they come from a primitive, isolated people. They are unusually strong, 

 having been made for use, not soon to be traded for knives or firearms, 

 nor to be used mainly by the children of the tribe, as is the case when 

 civilization is in process. 



Messrs. Spinden, Lowie and Skinner of the department of anthro- 

 pology have returned to the Museum from field research on the American 

 Indian in North Dakota, Montana and Wisconsin respectively. 



Mr. C. W. Leng of the department of invertebrate zoology spent several 

 weeks of the summer in Labrador and Newfoundland collecting insects for 

 the Museum. 



The third annual exhibition of the Aquarium Society was held in the 

 west assembly hall of the Museum October 6 to 13. 



Mr. Robert C. Murphy is in charge of an expedition to the South 

 Georgia Islands, imder the joint auspices of the Museum of the Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences and the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



Mr. William B. Richardson returned to Colombia in July, to explore 

 the exceedingly unhealthful Patia region, which appears not to have been 

 visited before by a naturalist. 



The Museum is represented in the Choco region of western Colombia 

 by Mrs. Elizabeth Kerr, an American, who has recently sent a small col- 

 lection of birds and mammals containing two new species of marmoset 

 and several new birds. 



Under the leadership of Dr. W. S. Rainsford, a third African expedition 

 has been organized for the collection of the black rhinoceros and other 

 large mammals. 



The Museum's public health models and diagrams illustrating the prob- 

 lems of water supply and waste disposal and structure of the bacteria of 

 disease were shown at the exhibition of the International Congress of 

 Hygiene and Demography during September and were awarded the highest 

 honor in each of the sections in which they were exliibited. The depart- 

 ment of public health is at present engaged in the preparation of an 

 exhibit dealing with insect-borne disease, one of the principal features of 

 which will be a large and elaborate model of the common house-fly. 



