MUSEUM NOTES 



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:ui(l iiidocd of America, is ojipa1)lc of fjicat 

 oxpaiisioii, but in twniinjj to fish as a war 

 food wo slioultl not loso si>rlit of cert a in 

 jirohlonis involved. Whereas some s|(eci('s 

 liave been overlooked, others already arc iiti 

 lized to sm'h an extent that thev camiol re 

 euperatc from the inroads made u|i(ui tliein. 

 In increasiiii^ our eonsumpt 'khi ciT tlic-c we 



are still further eatinjj np our capital. Then 

 not ordy does the price of fish rise in aym- 

 |iatiiy with that of other commodities in 

 K'sponsc to (M-onomic laws, but, furthermore, 

 l.ilxir is involved in obtaiiiin<x fish just as in 

 iaisiii;f cattk- or potatoes, ami it is |)rimarily 

 the shortage of hilior which is IniTij^in^f hnii- 

 Licr home to ns. 



Museum Notes 



SiNTE the last issue of the Jouknal the 

 followinjj persons have become members of 

 the Anu-rican Museum : 



ration, Mr. George G. Haven. 



Life Members, Mrs. James J. Goodwin, 

 Tiir Rev. Harry R. Caldwei.i,, Profersoi; 

 ('. I\. Kellogg, Dr. Wili,iam Dim.ki; Mat- 

 thew, Messrs. Thomas Bakuouk, Kph. A. 

 Karelsen, George Mercer, Charles A. 

 ScHiEREN, and Adolfo Stahl. 



Sii.siaiving Member, Mr. 0. H. Tenney. 



Annual Members, Mesdames Sylvan 

 Bier, J. M. Cohn, John Howells, Max 

 Kops, G. Langmann, Lucius K. Wilmer- 

 ding, Frank S. Witherbee, Misses Flor- 

 ence Dean, Virginia S. Loewenstein, 

 Messrs. .James Abbott, George J. Bald- 

 win, Felice Bava, A. C. Bechstein, Joseph 

 P. Bickerton, Jr., Roy Curtiss, Benedict 

 Ernstein, B. M. Ewing, Dudley B. Fay, 

 J']. Roland Harriman, Henry Lambelet, 

 Isidore H. Lehman, John B. Lunger, Max 

 L. Masius, J. Doull Miller, William W. 

 Miller, Louis H. Moos, Beverly Arden 

 NoRRis, Benjamin Patterson, William 

 Renult, Harold A. Rosenbaum, Morris 

 Rossi n, Raymond W. Storm, Thomas W. 

 Streeter, Myron C. Taylor, B. B. Thayer, 

 Robert Van Iderstine, C. Palmer Wood- 

 bury, The Rev. Wm. Brewster Humphrey. 



Associate Members, Captain Henry 

 Rowan Lemley, Messrs. George White- 

 field Davis, Albert Douglas, Charles C. 

 Glover, Robert J. McKay, Charles Lester 

 Marlatt, Walter S. Mitchell, H. A.Nebb, 

 F. Curtis Perkins, Jr., Henry Clifford 

 Stuart, J. M. Tate, Jr., James Todd, Edgar 

 J. Uihlein, Harry TT. Willock, John 

 Woodw'ELL, The Hon. Willis Van Devan- 

 ter. 



The sudden death, on December 19, of Mr. 

 L. 1'. Gratacap, curator of mineralogy and 

 of mollusca, was a great shock to his many 



Iricnds in the American Museum, where on 

 tliat very day lu' had been at his desk. Mr. 

 (iratacap has been identified with the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History sim-e Octo- 

 ber 4. 1S76, when the collections were still 

 housed in the old Arsenal Building. Since 

 the <leath of Professor R. P. Whitfield, in 

 1«78, he has been dean of the scientific staff, 

 having been in the service more than forty 

 years. During this period he has held suc- 

 cessively the positions of assistant curator 

 of mineralogy, assistant curator of geology, 

 curator of mineralogy and conchology, and 

 {'urator of mollusca, the last of these since 

 1909, when he was placed in entire charge of 

 the mineralogieal and eonchological collec- 

 tions.! The funeral services Avere held in 

 Trinity Church, New York City, where the 

 American Museum was represented by the 

 many members of the staff who were his 

 personal fi'ieuds. 



The death is announced of Mr. Augustus 

 R. Strader, head carpenter at the American 

 Museum of Natural History. Mr. Strader 

 has been actively employed in this institu- 

 tion for eighteen years. The members of his 

 department as well as his many friends 

 throughout the building mourn his loss. 



The Ivxecutive Committee of the American 

 Museum at a recent meeting coulimied tlie 

 succession of Mr. George G. Haven to tlie 

 patronshij) of his father througli tlie en- 

 dorsement of his i)atronship certificate. Tlie 

 Rev. Harry R. Caldwell was elected to life 

 membership in appreciation not only of his 

 gift to the Museum of a collection from 

 China of about 8000 insects, but also of his 

 assistance to the Asiatic Zoological Exi)edi- 

 tion during its recent work in Yunnan. Pro- 

 fessor C. R. Kellogg was made a life member 



' The .IoiknaIj will pulilisli a hiograpliical sketcli 

 of Mr. Gratacap in a later issue. 



