62 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
Uaupés River district of South America received by the Museum last 
summer as the gift of the late President Jesup there came to the Depart- 
ment of Entomology a remarkable collection comprising about 2500 speci- 
mens of butterflies, beetles, bees, wasps and other insects. ‘These have 
been mounted and placed in the cabinet of the Department where they 
may be inspected any day or during the evening on the first and third 
Tuesdays of each month, when the rooms are open to the public in con- 
nection with the meetings of the New York Entomological Society. 
THE exhibition showing the congestion of population in New York 
City which was held at the Museum in March attracted wide attention - 
from the press of the city and the country at large and drew thousands 
of visitors to the building. ‘The conferences on the various phases of 
the topic were largely attended and the discussions were participated 
in by many sociologists and humanitarians. 
‘THERE has been installed in Hail No. 204, Second Floor, central 
section of the building, a globe 48 inches in diameter which has been 
set so that it rotates on its axis by means of clockwork once in twenty- 
four hours. A search light that takes the place of the sun illuminates 
the globe and casts the shadow of an index upon it in such a way as to 
indicate the time of day. This may be compared with the time given 
upon a clock dial which is likewise connected with the mechanism 
operating the globe. 
THe Museum is fortunate in having secured a fine polished and 
etched section of the Gibeon (Africa) meteoritic iron. ‘The section is 
19 by 23 inches in extreme dimensions and shows the Widmanstatten 
lines characteristic of meteorites in beautiful development. A plaster 
model of the entire mass was likewise received and forms an instructive 
addition to the exhibit. The model and section were obtained by ex- 
change from the Natural History Museum in Hamburg, Germany. 
Mr. Frank M. Coapman, Curator of Ornithology, left the Museum 
February 29 for Florida to collect material for the habitat group showing 
the nesting of the Spoonbill. This bird was formerly abundant but now 
is on the verge of extinction. 
Dr. B. KE. Danieren of the Department of Invertebrate Zodlogy is 
in the Bahamas collecting corals and other material for the representation 
of a coral reef and its life which is to be placed in the Synoptic Hall. 
