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west of Cochiti, was cleared. Besides digging trial trenches and examining refuse 

 heaps, four kivas and 573 ground-floor rooms were cleared. The debris removed 

 from these rooms ranged in depth from two to twelve feet and represented, with a few 

 exceptions, two and three story houses. The resulting collections comprise sixty 

 more or less complete human skeletons and about two thousand artifacts. 



There has recently been placed in the forestry hall a bronze bas-relief of Morris 

 Ketchum Jesup, president of the Museum from ISSl to 1908, as an expression of the 

 admiration felt for Mr. Jesup by the late Mr. John J. Clancy. The panel is by Mr. 

 James E. Fraser and is very convincing both as a portrait and as a work of art. 

 In historic and decorative value it is in the spirit of the plans for development of 

 this hall, that it shall remain a fitting memorial to the man who brought together 

 what is to-daj^ the world's greatest collection of the trees of North America. A 

 photograph of the bas-reUef will be reproduced in the January Journal. 



President Henry Fairfield Osborn gave an address on the subject, "Recent 

 Developments in the Theory of Evolution," at the Pratt Institute Free Library before 

 a meeting of the Long Island Library Club on December 5. 



Professor Hugo de Vries, of the University of Amsterdam, lectured at the 

 Museum on "Experimental Evolution" Friday evening, December 6, before the 

 members of the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Academy 

 of Sciences. At the close of the lecture an informal reception was tendered Pro- 

 fessor de Vries. 



The department of education entertained some four hundred crippled children 

 from the various public schools of the city on December 16. The children were 

 carried from the schools to the Museum by special conveyance provided through a 

 transportation fund, the gift of Mr. Henry Phipps. At the Museum they saw Mr. 

 Carl E. Akeley's African moving pictures and heard him tell the story of the pet mon- 

 key "J. T. Junior," who, captured during the first month of Mr. Akeley's African 

 travels, remained a member of the exploring party for two years. 



The total number of children from the public schools attending the fall course of 

 lectures given by the Museum was 16,601. The subjects of the lectures were under 

 three heads: American history and civics; geography of tlie world, and great indus- 

 tries of North America.''! 



Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson of the Museum's Arctic expedition recently re- 

 turned to New York, has addressed during the past month various organizations 

 interested in geographical exploration on the subject of his experiences in the Corona- 

 tion Gulf region. The list includes the Geographical Society of Philadelpliia, 

 National Geographic Society in Washington, Harvard Travelers Club in Boston, 

 and Peary Arctic Club, Explorers Club and Campfire Club in New York. On 

 January 7, Mr. Stefdnsson will lecture in New York before the American Geograplii- 

 cal Society. 



Dk. J. A. Allen gave recently in Science a preliminary note on his latest re- 

 searches as to the time of extinction of the musk ox in northeastern Alaska. It 

 seems that reports made by the Stefdnsson-Anderson Arctic expedition not merely 

 confirm previous evidence of living musk oxen in this region as recently as fifty to 

 sixty years ago but also emphasize what has been said before by important addi- 

 tional information. The new facts rest on knowledge existing among natives and 

 white residents of the region and on collections made by the expedition, skulls 



