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utensils. ‘There are also many strings of small shell beads, called 
“Diwarra,”’ which form the currency of the islanders. Thirty strings 
of Diwarra is the price usually paid for a wife. 
AMONG recent acquisitions in the Department of Ethnology may be 
mentioned a stone idol — Ganesha, the God of Wisdom — from Benares, 
India, which is the gift of Miss T. Wilbour of New York City; archeo- 
logical collections from Europe and South America received through 
exchange with Professor Giglioli of the museum in Florence, Italy; 
ethnological material from New Guinea, through exchange with the 
museum at Liverpool, England, and archeological objects from Bar- 
tholomew County, Indiana, made and presented by Dr. J. J. Edwards. 
PRESIDENT JEsuP has been made a Corresponding Honorary Mem- 
ber of the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in apprecia- 
tion of his gift of the Diplodocus skeleton to the Senckenberg Museum 
at Frankfurt on the Main, Germany. 
In connection with the dedication of the Senckenberg Museum, 
Frankfurt, Director Bumpus was made a Corresponding Member of 
the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft. 
Dr. J. A. ALLEN, our Curator of Mammalogy and Ornithology, 
was elected an Honorary Member of the German Ornithological Society 
in November. ‘The honor thus conferred will be appreciated by those 
interested in the Museum when it is known that there are but nine such 
members listed in the latest publication of this important organization. 
Dr. Allen has also been transferred from the Foreign to the Honorary 
class of members of the British Ornithologist’s Union. 
— 
Mr. Henry O. Havemeyer died at his country home on December 
4. For about ten years he had been a Trustee of the Museum, and a 
further notice of him in connection with our institution will be given in 
a later number of the JouRNAL. 
LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
MEMBERS’ COURSE 
The second course of lectures to Members of the Museum and their 
friends will be given in February and March. 
