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Since the last issue of the Journal the 

 following persons have become members of 

 the American Museum : 



Sustain iiig Member, Paul J. Bonwit. 



Annual Members, Mrs. Lester M. New- 

 burger, Misses Eleanor Ferguson and M. 

 M. Kennerly, Professor Emil Roller, 

 Doctors Cornelius G. Coakley and Scud- 

 der J. Woolley, Messrs. a. Balinky, Louis 

 P. Bayard, Theodore Bernstein, Robert 

 E. BiNGER, J. P. Blair, Irving I. Blooming- 

 dale, GusTAV Blumenthal, H. p. Bonties, 

 M. J. Breitenbacu, Chas. Brodmerkel, Jr., 

 Walter Brown, Oscar Burgi, E. R. Bur- 

 nett, CiiAS. C. Castle, Frank H. Cauty, 

 Frederick H. Cl.\rk, Wallace Fairbank, 

 Percy S. Mallett, Frank Seaman and 

 Louis Webb. 



Associate Members, Mesdames Chas. 

 Uly'SSes Bear and Chas. Lyman, Major 

 General H. L. Scott, U. S. A., Doctors 

 Glenn F. Bowman, Don M. Campbell, J. 

 H. Carstens, Joseph C. Guernsey, Ernest 

 W. Haass, Edward K. Hopkins, Howard 

 Morrow and Geo. C. Pardee, Messrs. C. L. 

 Brumme, Leo M. Butzel, Wm. B. Cady, 

 Henry Walton Campbell, B. G. Chapman, 

 Austin Church, Frederick L. Colby, John 

 T. Coolidge, Jr., Winfield S. Davis, F. T. 

 Ducharme, Robert Kuhn, Henry Ledyard, 

 Alvan Macauley, Edward E. McNair, 

 John Brockway Metcalf, J. Henry Meyer, 

 Edmund T. Paterson, Julius C. Peter, A. 

 V. Phister, Gerald L. Rathbone, George 

 B. Sperry, Hollinshead N. Taylor, Sam- 

 uel Hinds Thomas, Ralston White, 

 George Whittell, Baldwin Wood and 

 Chas. M. Woods. 



As an expression of appreciation by the 

 American Museum of the valuable contri- 

 butions made to the science of silviculture 

 by Professor Charles Sprague Sargent, di- 

 rector of the Arnold Arboretum, Brookline, 

 Massachusetts, a bronze bust, executed by 

 Mr. C. S. Pietro, has been placed in the for- 

 estry hall. Professor Sargent received ap- 

 pointment to the position he now holds in 

 1873. With great scientific ability he com- 

 bines business faculty and a keen perception 

 of landscape beauty. The work that he has 

 accomplished as head of the Arnold Arbo- 

 retum is of the highest importance to the 

 science of dendrology, and that institution, 



tiirough his efforts, is unique both in the 

 arrangement of its large collection and in 

 the extent and completeness of the experi- 

 mental work in planting, pruning, and cul- 

 tivating all varieties of trees and shrubs that 

 will thrive in the climate of New England, 

 lie has striven to discover and introduce 

 hardy varieties from all temperate regions 

 of the world. From 1879 to 1884 Professor 

 Sargent made, under government auspices, 

 a survey of the forest areas of the United 

 States, with especial reference to the geo- 

 graphical distribution of various kinds of 

 trees and their commercial value. As a 

 practical continuation of this work, Pro- 

 fessor Sargent, through the generosity of 

 Morris K. Jesup, at that time president of 

 the American Museum, made the representa- 

 tive collection of American woods now on 

 exhibition at the Museum. Twenty years of 

 constant work, during which he visited al- 

 most every species of tree in its own haunt, 

 were required to accomplish this undertak- 

 ing. His Silva of North America, in four- 

 teen volumes, published as a result of his 

 explorations and his collection of the Jesup 

 woods, is the only work of its kind and is 

 recognized as among the most notable bo- 

 tanical works in America. 



At the Fourth National Conference of the 

 American Game Protective Association, held 

 at the Waldorf, New York City, on March 4 

 and 5, the alarming statement was made 

 that the upland game birds of America, in- 

 cluding the bobwhite quail, the grouse, and 

 the woodcock, are nearing extinction. The 

 woodcock, in particular, according to Mr. 

 E. W. Nelson, chief of the United States 

 Bureau of Biological Survey, have greatly 

 diminished in numbers within the last few 

 years. To account in part for this situation 

 a theory was advanced by Mr. John Burn- 

 ham, president of the association, to the 

 effect that in addition to rigorous winter 

 weather and bad nesting seasons, every ten 

 years there is a cycle of disease which kills 

 off the upland game birds. In a discussion 

 of the present demand, especially in rural 

 districts, that the game laws be suspended 

 for the duration of the war in order that 

 beef and pork may be replaced by game. Dr. 

 William T. llornaday, director of the New 

 York Zoological Park, urged the passage of 



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