MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 



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An interesting and valuable collection of Termites and nests 

 from the Isthmus of Panama has been donated to the Museum 

 by Mrs. A. Beaumont of Vineland, New Jersey, as a memorial 

 of her husband, the late Joseph Beaumont, Esquire, who collected 

 the specimens. The collection contains several thousand queens, 

 males, workers and soldiers of several species of Termites, pre- 

 served in alcohol and mounted in balsam on slides, together with 

 specimens of nests, Termite tunnels and a number of other in- 

 sects inhabiting Termite nests. 



THE IGUANA GROUP 

 Hal] No. 207 



Among groups which have been placed temporarily in the 

 East Mammal Hall, No. 207 of the second floor, may be men- 

 tioned those of the Iguana, the large tropical lizard which was 

 collected for the Museum in Sinaloa, Mexico, the great Texas 

 Rattlesnake, which next to the Diamond Back is the largest and 

 most dangerous of the poisonous snakes in the United States, 

 collected near the mouth of the Rio Grande and the Mud-Turtle, 



