MUSEUM NOTES 



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An occasion of recent interest was the 

 dedication of the new museum of Santa Fe, 

 New Mexico. The building is jjatterned 

 after the old Mission Church on the Eock 

 of Acoma, in a style of architecture said to 

 be one hundred and fifty years older than the 

 California missions. A notable feature of 

 the dedication was an exhibition of paintings 

 by well-known members of the Santa Fe and 

 Taos artist groups, including Robert Henri, 

 E. J. Couse, J. H. Sharp, Walter Ufer, and 

 others, on subjects inspired by Indian, Span- 

 ish, and frontier lore. The ceremonies ex- 

 tended from November 2-i to 28, and con- 

 sisted of addresses, concerts, Indian dances, 

 and excursions to Indian pueblos and ancient 

 cliff dwellings. The American Museum was 

 represented by Dr. Clark Wissler, curator of 

 the department of anthropology, who gave 

 an address on "The Opj^ortunities of the 

 New Museum," and by Mr. N. C. Nelson, 

 who spoke on "Recent Archaeological Dis- 

 coveries in the Southwest." 



The American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science meets in Pittsburgh 

 December 28 to January 2, where the Car- 

 negie Institute, the Carnegie Institute of 

 Technology, and the University of Pitts- 

 burgh will provide entertainment. Dr. W. J. 

 Holland, director of the Carnegie Museum, 

 is chairman, and S. B. Linhart, secretary of 

 the University of Pittsburgh, is secretary of 

 the committee on arrangements. 



It is expected that the new Field Museum, 

 Chicago, for which ground was broken in the 

 summer of 1915, will be ready for the trans- 

 fer of the contents of the old museum in 

 Jackson Park by August 1, 1919. The new 

 building is situated south of Twelfth Street 

 and east of the Illinois Central Station. It 

 is of Georgia marble, and, exclusive of the 

 porticoes, will measure 756 feet long and 

 350 feet wide. It will cost $5,000,000. 

 Palmers and documents containing an account 

 of the founding and maintenance of the 

 Field Museum, together with a photograph 

 of Marshall Field, and a copy of his will, 

 were placed in the corner stone. 



A GREAT public aquarium for San Fran- 

 cisco has been provided for in the will of 

 Ignatz Steinhart, who died at his home in 

 that city on May 15. The sum of $250,000 

 is bequeatlied to the California Academy of 



Sciences to be used for the erection of the 

 aquarium building. By the express terms 

 of the will the aquarium is to be in Golden 

 Gate Park, adjacent to or adjoining the 

 Museum of the California Academy of Sci- 

 ences. It is to be called the "Steinhart 

 Aquarium" and is to be under the manage- 

 ment, superintendence, and operation of the 

 California Academy of Sciences. The ex- 

 pense of maintenance will be met by the 

 city of San Francisco, provision for which 

 was made in a charter amendment voted by 

 the electorate recently. 



As the entire quarter of a million dollars 

 will be i)ut into the building, it is evident 

 that San Francisco will have one of the 

 greatest aquariums in the world. Mr. Stein- 

 hart was very desirous that, if he estab- 

 lished an aquarium, it should be under 

 nonpolitical control. Until recently he had 

 not been able to discover any entirely satis- 

 factory method by which this end could be 

 accomplished, and he had practically aban- 

 doned the project, when he heard through 

 Dr. Barton Warren Evermann, director of 

 the Museum of the California Academy, of 

 the transfer of the management of the New 

 York Aquarium from the New York Board 

 of Park Commissioners to the New York 

 Zoological Society, and the splendid success 

 of that aquarium under the efficient director- 

 ship of Dr. Charles H. Townsend. Mr. 

 Steinhart's interest at once revived. It was 

 suggested that the California Academy of 

 Sciences would probably be willing to accept 

 the management of the aquarium he desired 

 to establish, should he msh it to do so, and 

 the suggestion met Mr. Steinhart's approval. 

 Mr. Steinhart was one of the most philan- 

 thropic citizens of San Francisco, and his 

 name will ever be held in grateful remem- 

 brance by the visitors to the great aquarium 

 which his breadth of vision and liberality 

 will have made possible. 



A BULLETIN issued by the department of 

 public health of the American Museum em- 

 phasizes the fact that the sugar shortage is 

 really a blessing in disguise and that most 

 necessary changes in diet are not only econ- 

 omies but positive gains from the stand- 

 point of hygiene. Although sugar furnishes 

 more calories per unit of cost than any other 

 food, it gives us almost nothing except en- 

 ergy. The same is true of butter and other 

 fats, and too large an amount of these sub- 



