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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



many tribes of non-Chinese people in the 

 province of Yunnan, where few white men 

 have ever been, and showed numerous fine 

 views and motion pictures of the region ex- 

 plored, the various types of inhabitants, and 

 the animal life. 



Five of the members of the scientific staff 

 of the department of mammology and or- 

 nithology of the American Museum, who 

 have been in training camp at Plattsburg, 

 have received commissions as follows: Mr. 

 Leo E. Miller, 1st Lieutenant of Infantry; 

 Mr. Ludlow Griscom, 2d Lieutenant of In- 

 fantry; Mr. H. E. Anthony, 1st Lieutenant 

 of Field Artillery ; Mr. James P. Chapin, 1st 

 Lieutenant of Infantry; Mr. Carlos D. 

 Empie, 2d Lieutenant of Infantry. Mr. 

 Griseoni has been assigned for duty at Leon 

 Springs, Texas, December 15 ; Messrs. An- 

 thony, Chapin, and Empie at Camp Dix, 

 New Jersey, on the same date. Mr. Miller 

 has not yet received his assignment. Mr. 

 Joseph Connolly, of the department of in- 

 vertebrate zoology, has become a member of 

 the 308th Field Artillery, stationed at Camp 

 Dix. 



A NEW book, The American Indian, An 

 Introduction to the Anthropology of the New 

 World, by Clark Wissler, curator of anthro- 

 pology in the American Museum of Natural 

 History, has just been issued from the press 

 of Douglas C. McMurtrie, New York. It will 

 be reviewed in a later issue of the Journal. 



Word has been received from Dr. Herbert 

 J. Spinden, who has been for some months 

 exploring in Nicaragua, that he is shipping 

 a collection of ethnological and archaeologi- 

 cal specimens from that region to the Amer- 

 ican Museum. At the time of writing Dr. 

 Spinden was on his way up the San Juan 

 Eiver to Managua. He reports an exceed- 

 ingly wet season, which has made explora- 

 tion very difiicult and excavation almost im- 

 possible. 



Dr. C-E. a. Winslow, curator of the de- 

 partment of public health of the American 

 Museum, professor of public health at Yale 

 University, and editor of the Journal of 

 Bacteriology, together with most of the 

 other scientific members of the American 

 Eed Cross Mission to Eussia, returned to this 

 country about the first of November and 

 resumed his duties at the Museum and at 

 Yale. The business staff of the Mission re- 



mained in Petrograd to continue the ad- 

 ministration of the plans for military and 

 civilian relief which were worked out during 

 the summer. 



Dr. Bashford Dean, of the Metropolitan 

 Museum of Art and the American Museum 

 of Natural History, has been assigned the 

 rank of major in the United States Army 

 and on November 14 he departed for Europe. 

 He Avill pass the next two mouths in France 

 and England. 



On the evening of November 15, Prof. 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn delivered an address 

 on "The Origin and Nature of Life" at the 

 anniversary celebration of the New York 

 Academy of Medicine. 



In early November the thirty-ninth anni- 

 versary of the New York Microscopical So- 

 ciety Avas celebrated with a public exhibit 

 held in the American Museum of Natural 

 History. Several of the municipal depart- 

 ments had important exhibits of microscopi- 

 cal methods and results, showing the progress 

 and development of microscopy and its wider 

 use in the arts, manufactures, and sciences. 



Mr. G. K, Noble, who in June, 1917, was 

 appointed research assistant in herpetology 

 at the American Museum, has been granted 

 an eight mouths' leave of absence to com- 

 plete research previously begun on the Peru- 

 vian collections of Harvard University. 



Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies, 

 is in charge of a newly established depart- 

 ment of birds in Country Life in America. 

 Dr. A. A. Allen, assistant professor of or- 

 nithology at Cornell University, is conduct- 

 ing a similar department in American For- 

 estry. 



The model of a temporary military hospi- 

 tal, on a plan of construction in which the 

 hospital units are convertible into dwelling 

 houses, has been 'set up in the workshops of 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 

 It was designed by Mr. H. F. Beers, super- 

 intendent of construction of the American 

 Museum. 



Among the interesting acquisitions in the 

 department of geology is a seventy-pound 

 mass of telluric iron from the island of Disco, 

 Greenland, which was purchased near the lo- 

 cality by Dr. E. O. Hovey when on his way 

 home from Etah last summer. 



