TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBITION 17 



MODELS OF MARTINIQUE AND MT. PELE. 



HE Department of Geology has recently placed on ex- 

 hibition a series of models illustrating the Island 

 of Martinique and the effects of the eruptions 

 of Mt. Pele. There are four models in the ser- 

 ies, comprising the whole island upon a scale 

 of 1 : 80,000, modeled from the chart of the French Admiralty, 

 and three enlarged models of the volcano itself, upon a scale of 

 1 : 24,000, or 2,000 feet to the inch, prepared from the same chart 

 and photographic and other data obtained for the Museum in 

 1902 and 1903 by Dr. E. O. Hovey, Associate Curator of Geology. 

 In all the models the vertical scale is the same as the horizontal. 

 The first of the large-scale models shows the volcano as it was 

 before and at the time of the first great eruption, that of May 8, 

 1902, which destroyed the city of St. Pierre and its inhabitants. 

 The second large-scale model shows the changes which took 

 place in the volcano in the succeeding months and includes the 

 devastation wrought by the eruption of August 30, 1902. The 

 third large-scale model shows the wonderful spine and cone of 

 lava which was pushed out of the conduit and crater during the 

 winter and spring of 1902 and 1903, the time selected for repre- 

 sentation being April 2, 1903, which was at the period of maxi- 

 mum development of the strange structure. The models were 

 prepared at the Museum by the Department of Preparation and 

 Installation. They should be studied in connection with the 118 

 cases of specimens from Mt. Pele and the window transparencies. 



AMERICAN TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBITION. 



From November 27 to December 9 one of the exhibition halls 

 of the Museum was placed at the disposal of the National 

 Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and the 

 Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the Charity 

 Organization Society of New York for the purpose of exhibiting 

 the practical work of the Association and the Committee, and 

 demonstrating the methods that have been adopted to limit the 

 spread of a terrible but preventable disease, and to cure persons 



