A SSOCIA TION OF M USE UMS 1 2 5 



Shetland Pony. Percheron. 



Weight 170 lbs. 2160 lbs. 



Height 33| in. 5 ft. 61 in. 



Bulk of humerus 9^ cu. in. 114 cu. in. 



Bulk of femur 13^ cu. in 155^ cu. in. 



THE RUSSEL GULCH METEORITE. 



THROUGH the generosity of Professor C. F. Chan- 

 dler of Columbia University the Museum has re- 

 ceived as a gift more than one- third of the original 

 and unique mass of the Russel Gulch meteorite, 

 together with a cast of the whole. The weight of 

 this portion of the meteorite is eleven pounds and three ounces. 

 The specimen shows an etched face covering an entire section 

 through the mass, giving coarse and somewhat wavy outlines of 

 kamacite rods, in marked contrast with the fine structure in the 

 example of the same meteorite in the Ward-Coonley collection of 

 meteorites. 



This meteorite was found in Russel Gulch, Gilpin County, 

 Colorado, in 1863 and was first described by Professor J. Lawrence 

 Smith in the American Journal of Science in 1866. The original 

 mass weighed 29 pounds. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS. 



On May 15 a convention was held at the Museum for the 

 purpose of organizing an association of the museums of North 

 and South America. The attendance was large, and among 

 those who came from great distances in order to testify to their 

 interest in the movement were Mr. W. A. Bryan, of the Bernice 

 Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu; Professor J. E. Talmage, of 

 the Deseret Museum, Salt Lake City; Professor E. H. Barbour, of 

 the University of Nebraska; and Doctor P. M. Rea, of the Museum 

 of the College of Charleston, S. C. The Field Museum of 

 Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, the St. Louis Public 

 Museum, the various museums and art institutions of Boston 

 and vicinity, the museums of various kinds located in the vicinity 



