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horse at rest and in motion, the full-grown 

 Shetland pony grazing, the Arabian stallion 

 on the alert, and the race horse in action, all 

 of which show a spirit and vivacity resulting 

 from the most painstaking and exact atten- 

 tion to all niceties in the mechanics of 

 bodily movement. It is now proposed to 

 make the series more complete by the addi- 

 tion of the skeleton of a trotter, the distinc- 

 tive American type of fast horse. In this 

 connection Mr. Chubb recently spent three 

 weeks at Cuba, New York, on the estate of 

 Mr. Frederick B. Simpson, making a large 

 series of jjhotographic studies of the motions 

 of "McKinney,'' a well-known trotting horse, 

 which has been presented to the Museum by 

 Mr. Simpson. 



In 1904, the late Dr. Daniel Giraud Elliot 

 published in the zoological series of the 

 Field Museum of Chicago A Check-List of 

 the Maiiimals of the North American Conti- 

 nent, Ihr West Indies, and the Neighboring 

 Seas. Shortly before his death in 1915, he 

 prepared the manuscript for a supplement to 

 this work, carrying the subject to about the 

 end of the year 1914. This manuscript, sub- 

 mitted by his daughter. Miss Margaret H. 

 Elliot, to the authorities of the American 

 Museum of Natural History for publication, 

 at her expense, has recently appeared as a 

 Museum monograph, a volume of 192 pages, 

 issued under the editorship of Dr. J. A. 

 Allen. 



A MONOGRAPH of 21.J pages recently issued 

 by the American Museum contains a bibliog- 

 raphy of the scientific publications of Dr. 

 Joel Asaph Allen. A photogravure frontis- 

 piece shows Dr. Allen as he appeared in 

 1885, the year in which he became associated 

 with the Museum. The first forty-three pages 

 of the volume are devoted to brief autobio- 

 graphical remarks: the story of his boyhood 

 days, with interesting personal experiences 

 leading up to his life work, followed with de- 

 scriptions of collecting trips taken in the 

 period from 1865 to 1873, embracing expedi- 

 tions to Brazil with Agassiz in 1885, to the 

 Middle West in 1867, to eastern Florida in 

 1868, to the Great Plains and Eocky Moun- 

 tains in 1871, and to the Yellowstone in 1873. 

 The extensive bibliography Avhich occupies 

 the rest of the volume shows the results of 

 his researches to have been published under 

 1453 titles covering: mammals, 271; birds, 



9()6; reptiles, 5; zoogeography, 22; nomen- 

 clature, 35; biography, 134; miscellaneous, 

 20. 



Through the generosity of Mr. Ogden 

 Mills, the Library of the Museum has been 

 enabled to purchase additional monographs 

 by John Gould needed for the completion of 

 the series. The volumes included in the pur- 

 chase are: A Monograph of the Macro- 

 podidw, or Family of Kangaroos, 1841-2; 

 Supplement to the Monograph of the Trochil- 

 idie ; The Birds of Asia, in seven volumes, 

 1850-83; Mammals of Australia, in three 

 volumes, 1845-63; A Century of Birds from 

 the Himalaya Mountains, 1832; and A 

 Monograph of the Pittid(e, 1880-81. The 

 volumes are handsomely illustrated with 

 many hand-colored plates. They form a 

 valuable addition to the resources of the Li- 

 brary, inasmuch as they are now exceedingly 

 rare. 



A REMARKABLE mummy, which was discov- 

 ered in 1903 in an ancient cliff dwelling in 

 the Tularosa Mountains of western New 

 Mexico, has recently come into the posses- 

 sion of the department of anthropology of 

 the American Museum, ])reseuted by Dr. S. 

 M. Strong, now of the Medical Corps of the 

 United States Army at Atlanta, Georgia. 

 The cliff dAvelling from which the mummy 

 was taken was situated in a cave some two 

 hundred feet above the bed of a canon. The 

 finder dug down into this cave to a depth of 

 about nine feet, through six feet of loose 

 debris above three different house floors, de- 

 noting successive periods of occupation. 

 Under the third floor he came upon the body, 

 which was in almost perfect condition, lying 

 with head to the east and hands crossed 

 upon the breast, the thighs bent upon the 

 abdomen and the legs flexed. The mummy 

 was wrapped in three blankets woven of 

 rabbit skins, and beside it were thirteen 

 pieces of decorated pottery, some stone axes, 

 spear and arrow heads, and a gourd con- 

 taining a handful of parched corn. In one 

 hand the mummy held a stone pipe and in 

 the other a tobacco pouch, while on the 

 wrists were bracelets of bone and shell. An 

 earthen pot had been inverted over the head, 

 which is covered with reddish brown hair 

 about eleven inches long. The fur blankets 

 are said to illustrate one of the very oldest 

 known forms of weaving. 



