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olil 'rminiuoi Pas' to the (.iovormnont and 

 it is doin^' good work as a training ship. 

 Tlio Stars and Stripes are working with ns 

 in a s|d('ndid way and they are naturally 

 very }Hi]iular. They are saving my dear old 

 country and this we shall never forget." 



Through the gift of the Peary Arctic 

 Club, the library of the American Museum 

 contains the complete series of reports, so 

 far as issued (33 numbers) by Dr. Charcot, 

 on his two Antarctic expeditions, 1903-05 

 and 190S-10. 



At the session of the Royal Irish Academy 

 on the sixteenth of March, 1918, Professor 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn was elected an Hon- 

 orary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 in recognition of his distinguished services 

 in the HepartTuent of Science. 



At a meeting of the executive committee 

 of the American Museum on April 17, Mrs. 

 Frank W. Kitching, as the sole beneficiary 

 under the will of her husband, was named an 

 associate benefactor; Mr. Stanley G. Middle- 

 ton was elected fellow in recognition of his 

 gift to the Museum of an oil painting of 

 Professor Albert S. Bickmore; and Mr. M. F. 

 Savage a life member in appreciation of his 

 gifts to the dej^artment of anthropology. 



The third Liberty Loan met with a hearty 

 response from the American Museum of 

 Natural History, where two hundred em- 

 ployees subscribed for $20,000 worth of the 

 bonds. In the Liberty Loan parade of April 

 26, the Museum was represented by its full 

 quota. On that day flags were unfurled for 

 the first time from the new poles in front of 

 the Museum building. 



The Angrand Foundation of France has 

 awarded a prize of five thousand francs to 

 Dr. Herbert J. Spinden, assistant curator in 

 anthropology at the American Museum, in 

 recognition of his memoir on Maya Art, pub- 

 lished by the Peabody Museum of Harvard 

 University. This prize is awarded once in 

 five years for original investigations in the 

 anthropology of North and South America. 

 Dr. Spinden is engaged at present on recon- 

 naissance work in South America. 



A MEETING of the American Geographical 

 Society was held at Carnegie Hall on May 

 15, for the purpose of awarding the David 

 Livingstone Centenary medal to Colonel Can- 

 dido Mariano da Silva Rondon in recognition 

 of his valuable work of exploration in South 



Aniciii-a. rresi<k>nt John Greenough made 

 the iMcsentation speech, and the medal, in 

 the aiisence of Colonel Rondon, was offi- 

 cially received by the Brazilian ambassador, 

 Sr. Iloniicio da Gama. Colonel Roosevelt in 

 an inldress commended the I'razilian gov- 

 (Minneiit foi- the great amount of geograj)!!- 

 icai ('X|doration which has been conducted 

 tlirougho\it the diniiult region of Central 

 Brazil, with ])articular reference to the 

 work doiu' by Colonel Rondon and under 

 his direction in connection with the running 

 of lines for telegraphic communication be- 

 tween different parts of the country. In the 

 course of this work many streams were 

 crossed, some of which, although indicated 

 on maps in circulation, were incorrectly 

 placed, and many had not been noted at all. 

 The connection of these streams with known 

 affluents of the Amazon was entirely un- 

 known. Following the address by Colonel 

 Roosevelt several remarkable reels of motion 

 pictures were shown, illustrating not only 

 the accessible parts of Brazil but also some 

 of the almost inaccessible regions visited by 

 the Roosevelt expedition, and including pic- 

 tures of the savage tribes in their home life 

 and surroundings. These films have been 

 prepared by the Brazilian government and 

 sent to this country for the purpose of ac- 

 quainting Americans with some of the fea- 

 tures of the great South American Republic. 



The story of six years' exploration in Co- 

 lombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, 

 and Brazil is given in a volume soon to be 

 issued by Charles Scribner's Sons, entitled 

 /)( the Wilds of South America, by Leo E. 

 Miller. Mr. Miller, who is now a lieutenant 

 in the Aviation Corps of the United States 

 Army, is an assistant in the department of 

 ornithology at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, and it was in the interests 

 of this institution that his work in South 

 America was undertaken. An introduction 

 to the account of his travels is written by 

 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he 

 was associated as field assistant in the Roose- 

 velt expedition to Brazil, 1913-14. 



A RESOLUTiox was passed at the meeting 

 of the board of trustees held on May 6, to 

 the effect that Mr. Robert Hendry Kelby be 

 made a life member of the American Mu- 

 seum in appreciation of his long and ef- 

 ficient service as librarian of the New York 

 Historical Society, to which he has devoted 



