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expeditions for the study of the North American Indian in 1908-1909. The 

 opening of the exhibition of these pictures on the evening of October 24 

 in the west assembly hall, was made the occasion of a reception given by the 

 president and trustees of the Museum conjointly with the American Scenic 

 and Historic Preservation Society. After the reception a lecture was given 

 in the auditorium of the Museum })y Dr. Joseph K. Dixon with colored 

 slides and moving pictures illustrating the "Last Great Indian Council." 

 The striking music accompanying the motion pictures was composed by 

 Dr. Irvin J. Morgan, who used the phonographic records made during the 

 Wanamaker expeditions as his source of Indian rhythms and themes. The 

 Journal hopes to reproduce in a later issue a series selected from the Wana- 

 maker photographs presented to the Museum. 



Dr. R. M. y\.NDERSON of the Stefansson-Anderson Arctic expedition, 

 arrived in San Francisco November 2 on the steam whaler "Belvedere," 

 the guest of Captain and Mrs. Cottle. The "Belvedere" picked up Dr. 

 Anderson and the sixty cases of the expedition's collections at Baillie Island 

 (Cape Bathurst), July 28 and carried them on a four months' whaling cruise, 

 during which Dr. Anderson had the opportunity of seeing the capture of 

 twelve specimens of the huge bowhead whale. 



Dr. Alexis Carrel, the recipient of the Nobel prize for research in 

 medicine for 1912, lectured at the Museum November 11, under the auspices 

 of the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Museum of Natural 

 History. The subject of Dr. Carrel's lecture was "The Results of the 

 Suture of Blood Vessels and the Transplantation of Organs." 



One of the smaller archaeological collections secured by Mr. Stefansson 

 is from Point Hope. This has now been catalogued. Among other things 

 it contains a fine series of worked l)one and ivory illustrating the methods and 

 processes formerly used by the Eskimo. The ends of a piece of ivory were 

 cut off by drilling holes in toward the middle, until the piece could be 

 broken asunder; long slender pieces were cut off by grooves from opposite 

 sides, and so on. A large series of chipped points and many ground slate 

 knives accompany the ivory and bone objects. 



Among interesting recent accessions to the department of geology, 

 mention may be made of a particularly good slab of Tennessee marble show- 

 ing sections of characteristic fossils and a large block of quartzite from 

 Luvernc County, Minnesota, with a highly polished surface produced by 

 wind-blown sand. The department is in possession also of the most recent 

 model of the Isthmus of Panama, showing the canal in its completed form. 



