MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 61 
MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 
T the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees held February 10, 
Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn was elected President. Pro- 
fessor Osborn organized the Department of Vertebrate Palaon- 
tology in 1891, and under his curatorship, its collection has attained 
first rank among such series in the world. Since February, 1901, he 
has filled the office of Second Vice-President of the Board of Trustees. 
At the same meeting Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge was elected Second 
Vice-President, and Mr. John B. Trevor was made a trustee. President 
Osborn, Director Bumpus and Dr. Clark Wissler, Curator of the Depart- 
ment of Anthropology, were elected delegates to represent the Museum 
at the Sixteenth International Congress of Americanists, which is to be 
held in Vienna in September next. 
Messrs. CourTNEY BRANDRETH and Epwarp L. Durourcg have 
been elected Life Members on account of gifts to the Museum. Addi- 
tional Members have been elected as follows: Life Member, AMBROSE 
Ey VANDERPOEL; Annual Members, J. F. Carper, Mrs. MELBERT B. 
Cary, Louis P. Courcu, FrepERIcK H. KENNaRD, W. WILLIS REESE, 
JoHN E. WaiTakerR, ALFRED WILKINSON, D. Farrrax Busu, FrANcIS 
J. COGSWELL, JAMES B. CLEMENS, M. D., and Frank D. SKEEL, M. D. 
Tue Department of Anthropology has recentiy received an important 
collection illustrating the ethnology of the Andaman Islands, a little- 
known group in the Bay of Bengal. his will form the basis of a special 
articie in a later issue of the JouRNAL. 
Dr. LeLtanp O. Howarp, Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, 
Washington, D. C., gave an illustrated lecture at the Museum Tuesday, 
February 18, under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences. 
Dr. Howard spoke upon ‘“‘Some Recent Discoveries in Insect Parastism 
and the Practical Handling of Parasites” and one of the features of the 
lecture was a description of studies upon and results as to the extermina- 
tion of the gypsy moth. 
TOGETHER with the remarkable ethnological series from the Caiary 
