Notes 



Since the last issue of the Journal, the 

 following persons have been elected members 

 of the American Museum : 



Life Members, Messrs. C. M. Garrison, 

 MuRRY Guggenheim, N. B. Hersloff, Ed- 

 ward K. Lincoln, W. A. Marshall, 

 Charles V. Miller, Henry A. Murray, Jr., 

 and Frederick Sturges, Jr. 



Sustaining Memiers, Messrs. Wm. R. 

 Begg, W. a. Gramer, Harry L. Marsh, and 



E. L. Mayer. 



Annual Members, Mesdames Winthrop 

 W. Aldrich, Maurice Goldsmith, Hugo 

 S. Joseph, Henry Lambelet, Arthur W. 

 Lawrence, Seth Low, Henry Morgenthau, 

 James E. Newcomb, Adolph Obrig, Wil- 

 liam M. Polk, Annie D. Eawson, Charles 



F. Schmidt, Misses Emily L. Cornell, 

 Emma B. Hopkins, Martha K. Humphrey, 

 Florence L. Pond, H. Townley, Doctors 

 Nelson H. Henry, Austin W. Hollis, 

 Richard Jordan, Mozart Monae-Lesser, 

 Eugene C. Mowry, Mefford Runyon, 

 Messrs. C. Edward Billquist, George P. 

 Conger, Jacob Dashew, Waters S. Davis, 

 Wm. L. Fish, Lorenzo M. Gillet, W. V. 

 Griffin, Percy L. Guiterman, Henry B. 

 Hall, Chas. C. Harris, Geo. A. Harris, 

 Richard Harris, Julius Heilner, C. H. 

 HooLE, F. T. Howard, George Leland Hun- 

 ter, J. A. Jeancon, Thos. W. Johnson, 

 DeWitt Clinton Jones, Arthur J. Kahn, 

 Oswald J. Karsch, Fred Kaufman, Au- 

 gustus W. Kelley, William M. Kern, 

 Wilhelm Koch, Gustav Lange, Jr., John 

 Langton, J. W. Lee, Jr., Henry Leon, J. 



C. Leslie, Louis Levi, C. Seton Lindsay, 

 Charles S. Lippincott, Howard J. Lyons, 

 James McCourt, James R. R. McEwen, 

 Wm. H. McGee, Edward A. MacManus, 

 J. G. C. Mantle, William Marburg, Isaac 

 F. Marcosson, Langdon Parker Marvin, 

 Herbert Mead, Jr., Felix Meyer, George 



D. Milne, William G. Moller, C. D. Mon- 

 tague, A. Cressy Morrison, Philip J. 

 Mosenthal, Moss Ferris Moses, Floyd W. 

 Mundy, Henry B, Newhall, Jr., Edward 

 Plaut, Wm. C. Popper, Max Richter, John 



E. Rousmaniere, R. Schuster, Fred. W. 

 Shibley, Sol. D. Silberstein, W. N. 

 Ste'\'ens, E. M. Townsend, and Edward P. 

 Tysen. 



Associate Members, Mrs. D. S. Stanley, 



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Miss S. K. Pierce, The Hon. Franklin 

 Ferriss, Doctors Thomas M. Bull, 

 Thomas B. Futcher, The Rev. James Ban- 

 croft, The Rev. Wm. M. Chapin, Messrs. 

 Albert Babcock, Louis H. Barker, R. 

 Dale Benson, Jr., William Binney, Louis 

 H. Bregy, W. B. Brooks, Percival Chrys- 

 TiE, Walter J. Com stock, Frank Battle 

 Dancy, Sr., William C. Dart, Foster B. 

 Davis, William Ely, Chas. G. Fitzgerald, 

 M. Gillet Gill, Rufus K. Goodenoav, Erik 

 H. Green, Wm. E. Guy, R. Brooke Hop- 

 kins, B. C. Howard, Robert H, Keiser, I. 

 H. Lionberger, W. N. Matthews, Paul H. 

 Miller, M. Ib Nyeboe, Alqnzo Price, C. W. 

 ScuDDER, Joseph Nicholas Shriver, David 

 S. H. Smith, J. Edward Studley, Rush 

 Sturges, Knox Taylor, and Ashbel T. 

 Wall. 



The American Museum is a beneficiary 

 under the will of the late Mrs. Russell Sage. 

 The amount of this bequest is not as yet 

 definitely known. 



On December 18 a gathering of members 

 and friends of the American Museum in con- 

 nection with the Red Cross Christmas Roll 

 Call, presided over by Prof. Heury Fairfield 

 Osborn, was addressed by Miss Kathleen 

 Burke of the Scottish Women's Hospital, 

 and Dr. Woods Hutchinson, of New York 

 City. Colonel Burke, for she was recently 

 made colonel of the 138th Field Artillery, 

 in the United States Army, pictured scenes 

 of the suffering in Belgium and France. 

 She brought home to her audience the state 

 of mind of the Allies in Europe, a state of 

 mind that is still unknown to this country in 

 its remoteness from German barbarities and 

 the terrors of war. 



Dr. Woods Hutchinson spoke of the work 

 of the medical profession in the war. On 

 account of his position as a sanitarian, 

 the military authorities of the allied armies 

 furnished him with facilities for viewing the 

 medical work of the army in all its phases. 

 The marvelous efficiency of modern surgery 

 is demonstrated by the fact that 92 per cent 

 of all wounded have been saved, while 80 

 per cent have been returned to the firing 

 line. So skillfully has the surgeon accom- 

 plished his task that not more than 4 per 



