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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



The Liberty Loan Boucl committee, ap- 

 pointed by President Osborn some weeks 

 ago, reports that 167 of the employees of 

 the Museum have subscribed to the bonds, a 

 large percentage purchasing outright and 

 others paying by the month. The subscrip- 

 tion already amounts to $12,850, mostly for 

 fifty-dollar bonds. The arrangement by 

 which the Museum is enabled to receive the 

 subscriptions in installments was financed 

 through the generosity of Mr. Adrian Iselin, 

 Jr., and Mr. Felix M. Warburg, members of 

 the board of trustees of the American Mu- 

 seum. 



Eegistration for the New York State 

 Census for the Fifteenth Assembly District 

 was carried on at the American Museum. 

 The work was done by the fifty-three mem- 

 bers of the American Museum War Eelief 

 Association, under the supervision of Miss 

 Ann E. Thomas, chairman of the conmiittee 

 on census. The clerical assistants worked in 

 three shifts, the Museum giving the time of 

 the employees during the regular hours, and 

 the employees volunteering for the extra 

 service. The American Museum War Relief 

 Association is a recognized chapter of the 

 Red Cross and also a branch of the Navy 

 League, working daily in its Avorkroom at 

 the Museum on garments and equipment for 

 soldiers and sailors. 



Dr. Marjorie O'Connell, who has been en- 

 gaged by the department of geology and in- 

 vertebrate palseontology of the American 

 Museum to work on the collection of fossil 

 sponges as a special assistant during the 

 spring months, has been awarded the Sarah 

 Berliner Research Fellowship of $1,000 for 

 the year 1917-1918, beginning June first. 

 This fellowship was founded by Mr. Emile 

 Berliner of Washington, D. C, in memory 

 of his mother, and is designed to encourage 

 gifted women who have already made a note- 

 Avorthy beginning in some special field of 

 science. Dr. O'Connell's subject for inves- 

 tigation Avill be the ecology of the European 

 and American graptolites, extinct Hydrozoa 

 whose habitats have heretofore been little 

 knoAvn. In this connection she AA'ill study the 

 large collections of these forms at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History and Co- 

 lumbia University. 



Dr. Robert H. Loavie, associate curator 

 in anthropology in the American Museum, 

 leaves in August for California, Avhere he 

 will act as associate professor in anthropol- 

 ogy during the academic year 1917-18 in the 

 University of California at Berkeley. 



At a recent meeting of the California 

 Academy of Sciences, Dr. Frederic A. Lucas, 

 director of the American Museum, Avas 

 elected an honorary member, together Avith 

 Dr. Robert S. WoodAvard, president of the 

 Carnegie Institution at Washington, and Dr. 

 John A. Brashear, a trustee of the Carnegie 

 Institute at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



The tAvelfth annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Museums Avas held in 

 NeAv York City from May 21 to 23, Avith an 

 attendance of about one hundred and fifty 

 members representing a large number of 

 Avidely scattered institutions. On May 21 

 and 23 the sessions took place at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, and on 

 May 22 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

 The guests Avere entertained at luncheon by 

 the host institutions on the three days of the 

 meeting. Chief among the topics discussed 

 Avas the relation of museums to industry 

 and education. On the evening of May 22, 

 a reception was held at the New York Aqua- 

 rium, Avhen Dr. C. H. Townsend gave an 

 address on the administration of a pul)lic 

 aquarium. The Aveek Avas rounded out Avith 

 inspections of the other museums in the 

 vicinity. At the business meeting for the 

 election of officers, Mr. Paul M. Rea, of the 

 CharlestOAvn Museum of South Carolina, was 

 reelected secretary. Miss Laura L. Weeks, of 

 the same institution, assistant secretary. Dr. 

 W. P. Wilson, of the Philadelphia Commer- 

 cial Museum, treasurer. Mr. Roy W. Miner, 

 of the American Museum, and Miss Anna B. 

 Gallup, of the Children's Museum of Brook- 

 lyn, Avere elected councilors for a term of 

 three years. The president and vice-presi- 

 dent of the association, elected last year for 

 a term of tAvo years, are Dr. Henry R. Hoav- 

 land, of the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Sciences, and Dr. NeAA'ton H. Carpenter, of 

 the Art Institute of Chicago. 



An exhibit of the Keramic Society of 

 Greater NeAV York, held at the American 

 Museum from April 25 until May 6, showed 

 pottery and chinaAvare of design inspired 

 by the Museum's collections of the primitive 

 art of the Americas. The society, with a 

 membership of one hundred, meets regularly 

 in the Museum, under direction of Mr. Mar- 

 shall Fry, to study design applicable to 

 ceramics. At the last business meeting of 

 the Keramic Society, Dr. Frederic A. Lucas 

 Avas elected honorary president. 



