140 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
At the same meeting His Honor, Mayor Grorce B. McCLetian 
and Hon. Herman A. Merz were elected Patrons, and the election of 
Messrs. F. L. St. Joun, WitttaAm D. Gururie and Joun TREADWELL 
NicHots to Life Membership through the subscription of one hundred 
dollars each was announced. 
Direcror Bumpvs returned November 9 from a brief trip to Europe 
which was taken for the purpose of representing the American Museum 
at the dedication of the Senckenberg Museum at Frankfurt, Germany, 
October 13. While abroad, Dr. Bumpus took advantage of the oppor- 
tunity to visit many of the principal museums on the Continent inspect- 
ing collections and museum methods in general. 
Two pairs of antique carved elephant tusks and two carved ivory 
gods, all from the Benin district of the West Coast of Africa, have been 
acquired recently by the Museum. ‘They were taken from King Prem- 
peh by a detachment of the British army which had been sent into the 
country to punish his tribe for cannibalism. All the objects were 
veritable idols to which human sacrifices were made and which had been 
held in high veneration by the natives for generations. 
THe Museum has recently received forty-four interesting arrow 
heads found by H. W. Seton-Karr, Esq., during nine expeditions through 
the Desert of Fayoum, Egypt. Besides these, there are nine large 
arrow or spear heads, thirteen knives, three bent or wavy flakes worked 
on the edges and peculiar to the Fayoum Desert, one long worked flake 
and two adzes made of stone. ‘The objects were found on the sites of 
ancient villages, but there is now no water near them, and the village- 
sites are indicated by mealing stones or grinders found bottom side up. 
‘There are also four celts or chisels from India. 
Dr. Ropertr H. Lowe recently returned from a Museum expedition 
to Alberta and Montana. Dr. Lowie left New York on June 8 for 
Gleichen, Alberta, where he collected notes on the Northern Blackfoot. 
At Morley, Alberta, he camped for seven weeks with the “Stoney” 
Assiniboine, gathering a collection to represent their mythology. “Then 
Crow Agency, Montana, was visited, where specimens and notes on the 
social and ceremonial organization of the Crow were obtained. 
The bequest mentioned on page 116 should have been credited to 
the estate of Benjamin P. Davis, Fsq. 
