The American Museum Journal 
NOVEMBER, 1907 Nowa 
Vou. VII 
AHNIGHITO, THE GREAT CAPE YORK METEORITE. 
AST month mention was made in the JourNAL of the 
removal of the Great Cape York (Greenland) Meteor- 
ite ‘““Ahnighito”’ from the archway in front of the 
building to its permanent resting place in the Foyer. 
This month we present as our frontispiece an illustra- 
tion showing the iron in position. Like the Willamette 
meteorite on the other side of the entrance, it rests on a solid pedestal 
of concrete which has been built up through the floor from the rock 
beneath the cellar. Thus the supports of these heavy masses of iron 
are entirely independent of the building, and no jarring can cause them 
to threaten the safety of the structure. 
COLLECTIONS FROM THE CONGO. 
ROUGH negotiations recently carried on with the 
Belgian authorities, arrangements have been made to 
establish in the Museum an extensive exhibition illus- 
trative of the ethnic and zodlogical conditions of the 
Congo region in Africa. The proposition to establish 
such a permanent exhibition in New York City has 
appealed so strongly to King Leopold that he has authorized the govern- 
ment of the Congo Free State to open a special credit to aid in its for- 
mation. Two large shipments comprising more than 1500 specimens 
have already been received. 
It is planned to devote two halls of the new wing of the American 
Museum, now in process of construction, to African ethnology. The 
Congo section will be beautifully decorated with frescoes showing the 
scenery and with real examples of the flora and fauna of the country, so 
that the specimens illustrating human life will appear in surroundings 
appropriate to the different tribes they represent. Some of the groups 
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