The American Museum Journal 
Vou. VII JANUARY, 1907 / Woz 
et Z)jHE present number of the AMericaN Musrum JOURNAL 
yi AKL marks a change in the policy of the magazine. In 
order to emphasize the news features of the periodical 
and make it a more satisfactory medium of communi- 
cation with the Members of the Museum, the JouRNAL 
is to be issued monthly from October to May, in- 
clusive, instead of quarterly, as at present. The guide leaflets will 
cease to form an integral part of the publication, but they will con- 
tinue to be issued at intervals, and copies of them will be sent free 
to Members upon request made to the Director. 
The guide leaflet now in press is No. 23 of the series and is entitled 
“Peruvian Mummies and what they Teach.” The book has been 
prepared by Mr. C. W. Mead, assistant curator of the Department 
of Ethnology, and is intended as an introduction to the study of the 
Peruvian Hall (No. 302 of the third, or gallery, floor of the Museum). 
Non-members of the Museum may obtain the pamphlet for ten cents 
at the entrance to the building or by writing to the Librarian. 
RECEPTION TO COMMANDER PEARY. 
SaTURDAY afternoon, December 8, by invitation of President 
Jesup and the members of the Peary Arctic Club Commander Peary 
gave in the auditorium of the Museum the first public account of 
his remarkable exploring expedition to the latest “farthest north.” 
The thrilling story of the voyage of the “Roosevelt”? and the dash 
for the Pole was told with the aid of numerous lantern slide illus- 
trations. The personality of the speaker and the pictures added 
much to the vividness of the account, the bare outlines of which 
were already familiar to the audience through newspaper accounts. 
Before the lecture the Trustees of the Museum, many of the chief state 
and city officials, the members of the Peary Arctic Club, the officers of 
the American Geographical Society and the New York Historical Soci- 
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