LECTURES iat 
September 28 en route to Buzzard’s Bay, Boston and Gloucester and were 
entertained at luncheon at the Museum by President Osborn. Mr. 
Roy W. Miner, assistant curator of invertebrate zodlogy, received a 
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prize at the Congress for an article upon 
Exhibit of Fishes” and Mr. Dwight Franklin of the same department 
received one for a paper entitled ““A Method of Preparing Fishes for 
Museum Exhibition Purposes.” 
Mrs. ArMAR D. SAUNDERSON has recently presented to the Museum 
valuable mounted specimens of the Bongo Antelope and the Bush or 
Giant Pig. Mrs. Saunderson, while on a hunting trip last winter, ob- 
tained these specimens from natives in Eldamo Ravine, British East 
Africa, and had them mounted in London. The animals are rare and 
the species are entirely new to the Museum collection. 
Since our last issue the following persons have been elected to Mem- 
bership in the Museum: Life Members, Misses Emma H. Lockwoop and 
Ciara B. Spence; Annual Members, Messrs. Wititam C. ALLEN, C. 
ForstTER Cooper, JOHN P. Dreyer, WituiaAm T. BLopGcerr, HERMAN 
J. ErexHorr, HeNry RuHLENDER and J. H. Ermpeck and Mrs. JosEPH 
PULITZER. 
Mr. and Mrs. WaLpeMAR JOCHELSON, who were members of the 
Jesup North Pacific Expedition, were guests at the Museum during 
October, while making studies of some of our Alaskan material. 
Mr. and Mrs. Jochelson are on their way to the Aleutian Islands to 
prosecute extensive ethnological studies under the auspices of the 
Russian Imperial Geographical Society of St. Petersburg. 
LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS. 
MEMBERS’ COURSE. 
Tue first course of illustrated lectures for the season 1908-1909 to Mem- 
bers of the Museum and persons holding complimentary tickets given them 
by Members will be given in November and December. 
Thursday evenings at 8:15 o’clock. Doors open at 7:45 P. M. 
November 12.— Wini1am A. Bryan, of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Mu- 
seum of Honolulu, ‘Kilauea in Action. A Visit to 
Hawaii’s Famous Volcano.” (Illustrated with moy- 
ing pictures.) 
