Museum Notes 



SiN'CE the last issue of the Journal, the 

 following persons have become members of 

 the Museum : 



Life Members, Mrs. Warner M. Van 

 NORDEN, and Messrs. Amos P. Brown, 

 George Bullock, Henry C. Drayton, Cole- 

 man Du Pont, Otto M. Eidlitz, Chas. H. 

 Louis, Dwigiit W. Morrow, A. Perry Os- 

 born, H. Fairfield Osborn, Jr., Walter C. 

 Witherbee, and F. W. Woolworth. 



Sustaining Members, Mrs. M. Goldfrank, 

 Mrs. Pierpont Morgan, and Mrs. Frida 

 Zinsser. 



Anvual Members, Mrs. A. 11. Alker, Mrs. 

 E. Farrar Bateson, Mrs. Franklin Q. 

 Brown, Mrs. James Byrne, Mrs. Gilbert 

 Colgate, Mrs. F. Dalziel, Mrs. Mabel 

 Langenberger-Jones, Mrs. J. L. Mott, 

 Mrs. James Bronson Eeynolds, Mrs. 

 George S. Eunk, Mrs. Victor Sorchan, 

 Mrs. Edw. R. Stettinius, Mrs. John N. 

 Tonnele, Mrs. F. A. Vanderlip, Mrs. D. B. 

 Van Emrurgh, Mrs. Vanderuilt Webb, 

 Mrs. Eli Whitney, Mrs. A. M. Witten- 

 berg, and Miss E. II. Wisner, the Hon. 

 William McAdoo, and the Hon. James W. 

 Wadsworth, Jr., Dr. Miller Reese Hut- 

 chison, Dr. Morton R. Peck, Dr. Herman 

 Schwarz, and Messrs. Mortimer C. Abler, 

 John G. Agar, Percy S. Alden, Darwin R. 

 Aldridge, James W. Alker, Wm. Hall 

 Allen, Charles Lanier Appleton, George 

 T. Brokaw, Edwin Burhorn, Everly M. 

 Davis, Frank G. Doelger, Edgar M. 

 Doughty, Geo. Simpson Eddy, William 

 L. Hernstadt, Sam A. Lewisohn, Norvin 

 R. Lindheim, William J. Millard, G. M. P. 

 Murphy, Samuel Raisler, Charles F. 

 Swan, John Russell Taber, Samuel A. 

 Thompson, F. T. van Beuren, Jr., Martin 

 VoGEL, Max Waterman, Andrew Gray 

 Weeks, J. S. Wiley, Louis Wiley, Wil- 

 liam H. Williams, Barkley Wyckoff, 

 Edward Guild Wyckoff, Charles Zimmer- 

 MANN, and Mr. George L. Jewett in 

 memoriam. 



The chemical preparedness exhibit which 

 was arranged at the American Museum un- 

 der the auspices of the American Chemical 

 Society, the Electrochemical Society, the So- 

 ciety' of Chemical Industry, the American 

 Museum of Natural History, and the Mu- 

 seum of the Peaceful Arts, in honor of the 

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meetings of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, will be con- 

 tinued until February 1. There are on 

 display specimens of seventy-four of the 

 eighty-five elements, the largest number ever 

 grouped in this country. One group of nine- 

 teen contains all the elements found in na- 

 ture in uncombined state. Through the 

 courtesy of liady Ramsay there is exhibited 

 the original group of elements — helium, 

 xenon, kripton, and neon — discovered by the 

 late Sir William Ramsay. There are also 

 relics from the work of Joseph Priestley, the 

 discoverer of oxygen. The progress made 

 by this country in industrial chemistry since 

 the beginning of the European war is illus- 

 trated by cases of coal tar products includ- 

 ing dyes and medicinal preparations. 

 Products of the electrical furnace and those 

 obtained by the fixation of atmospheric 

 nitrogen are also exhibited. 



With the chemical exhibit is a case pre- 

 pared by the department of public health 

 of the American Museum, showing certain 

 phases of the life and works of Louis Pas- 

 teur. Pasteur was by training a chemist 

 and his contributions to chemistry were 

 valuable. He found time, however, for other 

 and varied activities; in his younger days he 

 did portrait painting that has been saved 

 to us; when the silk industry was on the 

 verge of destruction because of the spread 

 of disease among the silkworms, he came 

 forward with a cure; and it was he who 

 first showed that fermentation was due to 

 microorganisms of the air. His greatest 

 service to the world was the demonstration 

 of the use of vaccines in diseases of man and 

 animals, particularly in cases of anthrax, 

 rabies, and fowl cholera. 



Among those who attended the meetings 

 of the vertebrate section of the Palseontolog- 

 ical Society held at the American Museum, 

 December 28-29, were Dr. J. C. Merriam, of 

 the University of California; Dr. E. H. Sel- 

 lards, state geologist of Florida; Dr. O. P. 

 Hay and Mr. C. W. Gilmore, of the National 

 Museum; Professor R. S. Lull, of Yale Uni- 

 versity; Dr. W. J. Sinclair, of Princeton; 

 and Dr. F. B. Loomis, of Amherst. 



Mr. Alessandro Fabbri exhibited at the 

 annual meeting of the New York Zoological 



