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THE AMEBIC AX MUSEUM JOURNAL 



the Museum d'Histoire Natu- 

 relle brought a return mes- 

 sage of cordial greeting with 

 an expressed hope for early 

 victory to the Allied na- 

 tions. 



Major Frank M. Chap- 

 man, who has lately been 

 director of publications for 

 the American National Eed 

 Cross at Washington, D. C, 

 has been appointed Red 

 Cross commissioner to Latin 

 American republics. He 

 leaves for South America in 

 October. 



XoT for a hundred years 

 will there again be a solar 

 eclipse like that of the sum- 

 mer of 1918 when the shadow 

 passed across the whole 

 United States from Wash- 

 ington to Florida. The war 

 prevented expeditions from 

 abroad, but from our own 

 country expeditions from 

 Lick, Mount Wilson, Yerkes, 

 Xaval, and other observa- 

 tories, as well as from the 

 Smithsonian Institution and 

 the United States Weather 

 Bureau, were sent to the 

 Xorthwest where opportu- 

 nity for observation was 

 greatest. Dr. W. W. Camp- 

 bell, director of Lick Observatory, whose in- 

 teresting account has appeared in many pub- 

 lications, made observations and obtained 

 photographs at Goldenilale, Washington, ex- 

 actly on the middle line of the j^ath of the 

 eclipse. 



The American Museum service roll of 

 the war now numbers sixty-five names. 

 These include the men who are actively en- 

 gaged in the Army, Xavy, and aviation ser- 

 vice, and also those in the Red Cross and 

 scientific divisions. Lieutenant H. E. An- 

 thony, after about three months in France 

 with his company of field artillery, was 

 ready to go into action, when he received 

 orders from headquarters to return to the 

 United States to drill troops for the front. 

 The order carried with it a promotion to the 



Sergeam Cl.aili^ A. Cun 

 nolly met his death while 

 fighting for the cause of the 

 Allies at Chateau-Thierry. He 

 was twenty-five years old, 

 one of three sons employed at 

 the American Museum and 

 all called into Army service 

 early in the present conflict. 

 As a member of the old 69th 

 regiment of the National 

 Guard of New York, he had 

 been in active service on tlie 

 Mexican border 



rank of captain. He is at 

 Camp Lewis, Washington. 

 Lieutenant Leo E. Miller is 

 now chief observer in avia- 

 tion and has been transferred 

 to Camp Jackson, South 

 Carolina. Lieutenant James 

 P. Chapin is employed in the 

 south of France as billeting 

 officer, covering the ground 

 on a motor cycle or in a Ford 

 car. Mr. C. H. Rogers is 

 now a sergeant in physical 

 training at Camp Meade, 

 Maryland. Mr. Howarth 

 Boyle was one of twenty to 

 volunteer from Xaval Base 

 Hospital Xo. 1 for first aid 

 work in the trenches. Many 

 of the boys have had their 

 baptism of fire, having been 

 in and out of the trenches 

 many times. Private Chris 

 Schroth was the first to be 

 wounded, losing two fingers 

 in his third trip "over the 

 top." Private Albert J. 

 Kelly was wounded with 

 shrapnel. Both are now 

 ready f(tr action again. Pri- 

 vate Benjamin Connolly has 

 received the rank of corporal 

 since he went across a few 

 months ago. Sergeant Charles 

 A. Connolly, of the old 69th 

 regiment of Xew York, for- 

 merly an attendant in the 

 Museum, lost his life in the heavy fighting of 

 the Americans during the last part of July. 



The "Museum Letter," issued by the pub- 

 licity department of the American Museum 

 under the direction of Mr. George X. Pin- 

 ilar, is designed to keep the boys in service 

 in touch with the happenings "at home," 

 and also to give them news concerning one 

 another. 



The American Ornithologists' Union will 

 hold its thirty-sixth stated meeting at the 

 American Museum of Xatural History, Xo- 

 vember 12-14, 1918. A business meeting of 

 the Fellows and Members will take place on 

 the evening of the 11th. 



The .Journal is particularly glad to pub- 

 lish in this October issue the paper on the 



