Notes 



Since the last issue of the Journal the 

 following persons have been elected menibeis 

 of the American Museum: 



Associaie Benefactor, Mrs. Grace E. 



KiTCHlNG. 



Fellows. Messrs. Stanley G. Middi.eton 

 and James Shew an. 



Life Members, General Warren M. 

 IIealey, Captain Edward B. Close, 

 Messrs. John B. Dennis, Robert Hendry 

 Kelby, IIou.vtio S. Rubens, Jacob Ruppert, 

 Theodore Peters, M. F. Savage, W. K. 

 N'anderbilt, Jr., and C. W. Watson. 



Sustaining Memfters, Mesdames Wm. Fox, 

 August Heckscher, and Messrs. Le Roy 

 Frost, Chas. J. Graham, and Samuel 

 Sachs. 



Annual Members, Mesdames Rose O. 

 Bear, Ansox W. Burchard, Hugh J. 

 Chisholm, R. J. Collier, William Con- 

 stable, John J. Corning, Clarkson Cowl, 

 R. J. Cross, Horace E. Deming, Louis J. 

 Ehret, Abram I. Elkus, A. R. Estey, Leo- 

 pold Fredrick, Morrill Goddard, H. Win- 

 throp Gray, Simon Guggenheim, J. R. 

 Harbeck, Harold Ames Hatch, Henry S. 

 Herrman, Percy Hall Jennings, Garrett 



B. Kip, Gertrude W. Kohlman, W. J. 

 Matheson, Henry L. Moses, Carl Muller, 

 Henry Parish, Edward Potter, L. Ross- 

 bach, William F. Sheehan, L. Graeme 

 Scott, Pierre J. Smith, Henry M. Tilford, 

 Francis M. Weld, Howard F. Whitney, 

 Miss Helen A. Peabody, Doctors James 



A. Corscaden, Jas. F. McKernon, Felix 

 VON Oefele, Messrs. Fridtjov Andersen, 



C. C. AucHiNCLOss, J. L. Bell, Arthur 

 BoDANZKY, John S. Clarke, F. G. Cooper, 

 Richard Varick Dey, Ellis P. Earle, 

 Howard Elliott, Frank J. E. Fitzpatrick, 



B. Frankfeld, Fred Frese, John H. Fulle, 

 William H. F. Gade, Eugenic Galban, 

 Eugene C. Harding, Clarence L. Hay, 

 Samuel A. Herzog, R. H. Higgins, Harry 

 L. Hoffman, Ernest Hopkinson, Chris. 

 G. Hupfel, a. S. Hutchins, Robt. H. Inger- 

 SOLL, Otto Isenstein, William B. Isham, 

 George S. Jephson, Eli Joseph, Daniel 

 Kops, Sigmund Klee, William W. Law- 

 ton, Henry Goddard Leach, William Mc- 

 Nair, Alexander J. Marcuse, Wm. Wal- 

 lace Mein, Jan W. Paris, Henry B. Platt, 

 Elwyn W. Poor, Samuel Pratt, Walter 

 N. Rothschild, Louis B. Schram, Arthur 



A. Schwarz, Edw. W. Sparks, Emil ^I. 

 Sperling, the Scoville School, and the 

 Sisters of the Good Shepherd. 



Associate Members, Mesdames Gordon T. 

 Beaham, Esther A. Horr, Lucy H. Rob- 

 ertson, the Rt. Rev. Edwin G. Weed, the 

 Rev. Robert Wilson, D.D., General Wm. 

 Vekbeck, Colonels John Millis, Frederic 

 J. Paxon, Henry Lee Valentine, the Hon. 

 George A. Parker, Doctors J. M. Francis, 

 St. Geo. T. Grinnan, H. F. Harris, Hugh 

 Nelson Page, Chas. P. Neill, Joseph A. 

 White, Robert Wilson, Jr., Professors 

 Alfred E. Burton, Melville T. Cook, Ar- 

 thur S. Eakle, Messrs. Wm. A. Adams, 

 L. H. Bailey, E. A. Boardman, J. J. Good- 

 rum, Jr., Chas. C. Hanmer, N. A. Hardee, 

 Henry K. Jones, Robinson Locke, C. G. 

 Memminger, Chas. C. Moore, Edwin C. 

 Northrop, Joseph Ripley, William Ran- 

 dolph Robins, Simon W. Rosendale, Earle 

 Sloan, J. P. Stevens, Thos. W. Synnott, 

 Francis J. Torrance, Seymour van Sant- 

 vooRD, and Robert F. Welsh. 



Two bequests to the American Museum 

 were announced at a meeting of the execu- 

 tive committee of this institution on April 

 17. One is under the will of Ludwig Drey- 

 fuss for $10,000, the other under the will of 

 Mrs. Louisa Combe, who became a life mem- 

 ber of the Museum in 1894. The amount of 

 the latter gift has not yet been made pub- 

 lic. 



The illustrations which accompany the re- 

 view of Frank E. Lutz's Field Book of In- 

 sects appearing in this issue of the Journal 

 were printed in color by the American Mu- 

 seum press from plates loaned through the 

 courtesy of G. P. Putnam's Sons. 



Mr. Herbert P. Whitlock, of the New 

 York State Museum, was appointed curator 

 of the department of mineralogy in the 

 American Museum of Natural History at a 

 meeting of the executive committee on April 

 17. Mr. Whitlock was graduated from the 

 Columbia University School of Mines in 

 1901 and acted as assistant in mineralogy at 

 the University until 1904, when he ])ecame 

 connected with the New York State Museum 

 as mineralogist. He is especially interested 

 in methods of museum installation. His 

 resignation from the State Museum will take 



401 



