118 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
Proressor Henry E. Crampton of Columbia University made a 
second expedition to the Island of ‘Tahiti during the past summer in 
behalf of the Museum, carrying on the studies which he began last year 
with regard to the effect of geographical isolation as a factor in specific 
evolution and the determination of data relating to the inheritance of 
sundry specific characters. 
DurinG a trip to Germany last summer Professor Bashford Dean, 
Curator of Fossil Fishes, secured for the Museum five beautiful speci- 
mens of fossil fishes from the celebrated lithographic stone quarries at 
Solnhofen, Bavaria. Among these are a Propterus, a Caturus and a 
Megalurus that are hardly excelled by any similar specimens in the 
German museums. 
H. W. Seron-Karr, Esq., of Wimbledon, England, has presented 
to the Department of Archzeology a splendid series consisting of seventy- 
one specimens of palzolithic implements collected by him in the Districts 
of Poondi and Cazeepet, Madras Presidency, India. ‘These implements 
are of red argillaceous sandstone and were washed out of Pleistocene 
alluvial deposits containing quartzite boulders. These relics of the early 
Stone Age have been placed on exhibition in the gallery cases of the 
Peruvian Hall, No. 302 of the gallery floor. 
A LARGE ethnological collection made in Korea in 1906 and 1907 
by Dr. C. C. Vinton has been presented to the Museum. ‘The material 
consists principally of vessels of glazed and unglazed pottery, many of 
which are of beautiful design and finish. 
Tue collection illustrating the culture of the Indians of the Plains 
has been enriched by the accession of two decorated buffalo robes from 
the Sioux tribe. Since the practical extermination of the buffalo twenty- 
five years ago such robes have become extremely scarce. 
Tuer Department of Archeology has received from Mr. Alanson 
Skinner a series of specimens collected for the Museum this year in 
Ontario, Livingston and Erie Counties, New York, from sites formerly 
occupied by the Seneca and Neutral Indians of Iriquoian stock. 
