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man made another expedition in June and July with the artist Mr. L. 
A. Fuertes to Saskatchewan for the wild water fowl of the Northwest 
and to the Canadian Rockies for Ptarmigan. The expeditions were 
eminently successful in procuring the skins, accessories, photographs 
and sketches needed for the groups, which form part of the series of 
Habitat Groups provided for by the North American Ornithology 
Fund. 
Messrs. WaLTeR GRANGER and George Olsen of the Department 
of Vertebrate Paleeontology, returned July 4 from Egypt, where they 
had spent more than four months in active excavation and exploration 
in the Fayoum Desert. The objects of the expedition, which was 
under the immediate direction of Professor Osborn, were set forth in 
the American Museum Journat for last February. The results were 
highy satisfactory, but a detailed notice of them is reserved for a 
later number of the JouRNAL, after the material shall have been received 
-at the Museum. 
LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
MEMBERS’ COURSE. 
Ture first course of lectures for the season 1907-1908 to Members of the 
Museum and persons holding complimentary tickets given them by Members 
will be held in November and December. The lectures will be delivered 
on Thursday evenings at 8:15 o’clock and will be fully illustrated by stereop- 
ticon views. The programme will be announced this month in a special 
-circular. 
PUPILS’ COURSE. 
Tue lectures to Public School children will be resumed in October. 
These lectures are open to the pupils of the public schools when accompanied 
by their teachers and to the children of Members of the Museum on the 
presentation of Membership tickets. Additional particulars of this course 
may be learned by addressing the Directors of the Museum. 
PEOPLE’S COURSE. 
Tuesday evenings at 8 o'clock. 
A course of lectures illustrated with stereopticon views. 
‘October 1.— Dr. P. H. GorpsmitH, “The Great Mexican Cornucopia.” 
