MUSEUM NOTES 



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

 elected to membership in the Museum: 



Patron, Mrs. William H. Bliss; 



Life Members, Mrs. Samuel W. Bridgham, Messrs. Robert Sterling 

 Clark, Adam W. S. Cochrane, R. D. O. Johnson, Alfred J. Klein, 

 Benjamin Strong, Jr., Frederick Taylor and J. Watson Webb; 



Sustaining Members, Mrs. John D. Archbold, Mrs. Sara Hermann, 

 Mrs. L. H. Lapham, and Miss Mary Garner Tilney; 



Annual Members, Mrs. Sidney C. Borg, Mrs. Arthur D. Brandeis, 

 Mrs. John C. Breckinridge, Mrs. Frances I. Capen, Mrs. Carroll 

 Dunham, Mrs. J. Clifton Edgar, Mrs. George S. Edgell, Mrs. Frank- 

 lin Farrel, Mrs. George A. Helme, Mrs. Adolph Lewisohn, Mrs. 

 Henry K. Pomroy, Mrs. A. Sumner Rose, Mrs. Grant Squires, Mrs. 

 Florence M. Stowell, Mrs. Lewis S. Wolff, Mrs. John Alvin Young, 

 Miss Justine V. R. Barber, Miss Emily Cross, Miss Emma Feucht- 

 WANGER, Miss Ruth B. Fisher, Miss Clara Friedlander, Miss Cather- 

 ine Murray, Miss Marie F. C. Stockmann, Dr. Phineas Hillhouse 

 Adams, Dr. F. R. Oastler and Dr. Howard C. Taylor, and Messrs. 

 Gordon Auchincloss, Louis H. Barker, Alexander M. Bing, James 

 Ellis Briggs, Algernon T. Burr, Irving L. Ernst, Zoheth S. Freeman, 

 C. A. Grasselli, Eugene D. Hawkins, Alfred M. Heinsheimer, 

 Rankin Johnson, Arthur Kaufmann, L. D. Kellogg, George H. Levy, 

 Willis E. Lougee, David W. McNaugher, David B. Simpson, Jesse M. 

 Smith and Simon Weiller. 



The Third Annual Teachers' Day will be held at the Museum on 

 Saturday, November 16. The program will include addresses by President 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn and Superintendent William H. Maxwell and an 

 illustrated lecture by the Arctic explorer, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, just 

 returned from four years' work in the far north. 



It is through its permanent exhibits that the Museum is most useful to 

 teachers. For example, its Indian and Eskimo halls teach the life and 

 culture of these people to-day and in the past very fully. Few realize how- 

 ever, as they pass in review a long series of cases containing clothing, wea- 

 pons or pottery with stories of their history and use, what work has been 

 done, perhaps through many years, what money spent and sacrifices made 

 to bring such collections to New York from the primitive race which used 

 them. It is this exploration work of the Museum as preparation for the 

 institution's usefulness to teachers that will be the theme of this Third 

 Annual Teachers' Day. Fortunately there have arrived at the Museum 

 some of the collections gathered by Mr. Stefansson some four thousand 



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