MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 91 
of the Black Fish, or Pilot Whale, made from a cast taken from the 
actual specimen by the Boston Society of Natural History. his ani- 
mal is still common in North Atlantic waters. There have also been 
put on exhibition small models of the Right Whale, made from the 
whale caught at Amagansett, L. I., in February of last year and the 
Humpback Whale, and a small model of the head of the Sulphurbottom 
Whale showing the position of the whalebone and the way in which the 
animal opens its mouth. 
THE case containing representatives of the large members of the Cat 
Family has been entirely re-arranged and made more effective in its 
installation and now includes the mounted specimen of the Carnegie 
lion which was described and illustrated in the JouRNAL for March, 1907. 
In the East Mammal Hall of the Second Floor (No. 207) there 
have been installed seven panels of heads of the big game and other 
trophies collected by Mr. John R. Bradley of New York and deposited 
with the Museum. ‘The heads are fine examples of the large mammals 
of America, Asia and Africa and represent a wide range of species. 
THe Museum has recently received on deposit from the estate of 
Commodore Lawrence Kearny, U. 5. N., a valuable feather cape from 
the island of Hawaii that was given to him by King Kamehameha III, 
on the occasion of the commodore’s visit to Honolulu in 1843 on a 
diplomatic errand from the American government. 
Wirat the past few months several important collections and in- 
dividual specimens have been received by the Department of Anthro- 
pology. Among these particular mention should be made of a series 
of about 6,000 objects illustrating the archeology of the State of New 
York which comes as a gift from Henry Booth, Esq., of Poughkeepsie. 
This collection contains implements and utensils of stone, bone, shell 
and pottery showing the culture of the prehistoric peoples and a number 
of skulls and skeletons. From Mr. M. F. Savage have been received 
a remarkably fine spear and paddle from Hawaii and an iron tobacco 
pipe inlaid with gold from Manchuria. T. MacGregor MacDonald, 
Esq., of Wallilabo, St. Vincent, B. W. I., has presented a Carib stone 
axe and a stone for grinding stone implements from the island of St. 
