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Since the last issue of the Journal the 

 following persons have become members of 

 the American Museum : 



Honorary Fellow, The Honorable Theo- 

 dore Roosevelt. 



Life Member, Mr. George Notman. 



Amiual Members, Mrs. Augusta G. Carr, 

 Mrs. Charles B. Hewitt, Mrs. Walt Kuhn, 

 Mrs. J, Edwin Mastin, Dr. E. Santley But- 

 ler, Dr. George E. Davis, Messrs. William 

 Brewster, F. N. Doubleday, S. A. Goodman, 

 Barton L. Keen, Isador Koplik, Stanley V. 

 La Dow, A. Edward Lester, D. Thomas 

 Moore, Wm. Wesley New, Stanley G. Ranger, 

 George Semler, and Cecil P. Stewart. 



Associate Members, Dr. Robert Milligan, 

 Dr. J. Scott Willock, and Mr. John G. 

 Masson. 



Dr. Joel Asaph Allen, after twenty-eight 

 years of active service as editor of the scien- 

 tific publications of the American Museum, 

 resigns in order to devote himself to the 

 study of the ever increasing collections of 

 the department of mammalogy and ornithol- 

 ogy, of which he is curator. The following is 

 an extract from the resolution passed by the 

 publication committee of the Museum at its 

 meeting of October 2.5, in appreciation of 

 Dr. Allen's valuable services: 



". . . As the scientific editor, he has been 

 little less than ideal, since with a natural fit- 

 ness for the calling there was combined also 

 the highest quality of scholarship in the sub- 

 jects dealt with by his contributors. He was 

 thus more than editor ; rather a leader in the 

 researches represented in the Bulletin and 

 Memoir series." 



Dr. F. E. Jjutz, of the department of inver- 

 tebrate zoology of the American Museum, 

 was appointed to succeed Dr. Allen, begin- 

 ning his administration of the work Novem- 

 ber 1. 



In recognition of his contributions to sci- 

 ence. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has been 

 appointed Honorary Fellow of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, of which his 

 father, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., was one of 

 the founders and most energetic supporters. 

 Colonel Roosevelt has always taken a keen 

 interest in the life histories of animals. 

 When a boy he was an enthusiastic student 

 of ornithology, — a collection of birds made 

 in his youth now forms a part of the exhibit 



in till' Itird linll of the American Museum. 

 On liis many hunting and exploring trips he 

 lias made extensive collections ; the expedi- 

 tion of 1913 to South Africa resulted in the 

 accession by the American Museum of 2000 

 mammal and 500 bird specimens. His Avrit- 

 ings based on these travels are not merely 

 narratives of adventure possessing literary 

 charm, they are also studies of the habits 

 and the life histories of animals and of so- 

 cial and ethnological conditions of peoples 

 encountered, and as such are of great scien- 

 tific value. Among some of his well-known 

 Avorks are: Ranch Life and the Hunting 

 Trail; American Big Game Hunting ; Afri- 

 can Game Trails; and Through the Brazilian 

 Wilderness: The election to Honorary Fel- 

 lowship is -the highest honor that the Mu- 

 seum can bestow. There have been only ten 

 men so honored in the history of the insti- 

 tution. In the order of their election these 

 are as follows: Dr. Bashford Dean, Baron 

 Ludovic Moncheur, Lieutenant George T. 

 Emmons, U. S. N., George Bird Grinnell, 

 Roald Amundsen, Rear Admiral Robert E. 

 Peary, U. S. N., Dr. Leonard C. Sanford, 

 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Sir Ernest Shackle- 

 ton, and the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt. 



The following were the lectures to mem- 

 bers given by the American Museum in No- 

 vember. Mr. Donald B. MacMillan, the Arc- 

 tic explorer, gave an account on November 1 

 of the difficulties and dangers experienced 

 during four years' exploring in the North, 

 with important details regarding the charac- 

 ter of the country and the customs of the 

 Eskimos, with whom the expedition estab- 

 lished cordial relations. The following week. 

 Captain A. Radclyffe Dugmore gave "The 

 Romance of the Beaver and the Caribou," 

 and illustrated his talk with some splendid 

 stereopticon views of the wild life of New- 

 foundland. "The Southern Andes" was the 

 subject of an address by Dr. Frank M. Chap- 

 man on November 15, in which were described 

 the features of the Peruvian coast and cli- 

 niate and the rugged scenery in the lofty 

 Titicacan region. Native types and cere- 

 monies, pack trains of llamas, and the mak- 

 ing of reed boats were pictured. The final 

 lecture of the series, on November 22, was 

 by Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews. Mr. An- 

 drews told much that was new concerning 



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