70 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



The list of Annual Members of the Museum was increased by 

 the addition of 210 new names during the year 1905. 



The changes in installation in the large wall cases in the 

 Morgan Gem Room have been completed. The cases have been 

 lined with velours, and the handsomest specimens of Jade, 

 Malachite, Azurite, Quartz, Calcite, Sulphur, Feldspar, Gypsum, 

 Fluorite, Tourmaline and Rhodonite have been mounted in them. 

 Each specimen has received independent treatment to bring out its 

 salient characters in the best manner possible. Most visitors will 

 be surprised at the wealth of beautiful material displayed, par- 

 ticularly in Malachite and Azurite, the green and blue copper 

 ores for which the Copper Queen Mine of Arizona has long 

 been famous, Calcite, or Calc-spar, and Quartz, including some 

 remarkable masses of Amethyst. 



Mr. Richard Tjader, a traveler and hunter of wide expe- 

 rience, accompanied by Mr. Herbert Lang, one of the Museum 

 preparators, left New York on March i on an expedition into 

 British East Africa (Uganda) for birds and mammals, particu- 

 larly the large mammals of the region, for the Museum collections. 

 The party will land at Mombassa on the east coast and proceed 

 thence by railroad to Nairobi. From Nairobi advance will be 

 made by circuitous route northward, westward and southward 

 to Port Victoria on Lake Victoria, whence return to the coast will 

 be made by boat and rail. The expedition has been provided for 

 through the generosity of Mr. Samuel Thome. 



Mr. Bruce Horsfall, the bird artist, spent two weeks in 

 Florida in January making sketches and notes for the Museum 

 groups representing the Brown Pelican, the Water Turkey, the 

 Great Blue Heron and the Sandhill Crane. The trip was highly 

 satisfactory, and the results will shortly appear in the exhibi- 

 tion halls. This is a part of the w^ork being carried on under the 

 North American Ornithology fund to which the Museum owes 

 the San Joaquin Valley group, the Flamingo group and several 

 smaller groups. 



