NEWS NOTES 131 



Professor M. H. Saville sailed from New York in May on an 

 archseological expedition, planned and financed by Mr. George 

 G. Heye, into the northwestern portion of South America. After 

 devoting some weeks to studies in Ecuador he will proceed 

 northward into Colombia, where he will devote several weeks 

 to the exploration of the Cauca Valley from Popayan to Antio- 

 quia. One of the objects of the study of this valley is to de- 

 termine the origin of the peculiar black pottery which has been 

 distributed therefrom to all the important museums of the 

 world, but about which comparatively little is known. 



Reproductions in plaster of the famous Okazaki Collection 

 of Chinese bronzes and pottery have been completed and 

 placed on exhibition in the Chinese Hall (No. 301 of the Third 

 Floor). 



Recent additions to the exhibits in the Hall of Invertebrates 

 (No. 107 of the Ground Floor) include a series of models illustrating 

 the development of the frog from the simple egg up to the tad- 

 pole stage, mounted specimens of the horned toad, and several 

 lizards and tortoises and glass models of several Hydroids. A 

 series of models illustrating the development of a coral in thirteen 

 stages from the swimming larva as first set free from the parent 

 polyp to the mature form has been installed in alcove No. 3. 

 The Museum's magnificent specimen of the giant Gorgonia from 

 the Japanese seas has been placed in a case at the north end of 

 alcove No. 4. The specimens of the handsome Organ Pipe Coral 

 have been rendered more interesting and instructive by the ad- 

 dition of reproductions of the animals to a portion of one of the 

 specimens. The specimens of the great sponge, known as Nep- 

 tune's Goblet, have been installed in a case by themselves at the 

 end of alcove No. 2. 



The New York Aquarium has presented to the Museum the 

 body of a large striped bass, Roccus lineatus, which died Jan- 

 uary 13, 1906. The fish was collected in Gravesend Bay, Long 

 Island, and placed in one of the salt-water pools of the Aqua- 

 rium May 14, 1894, when it was 10 inches long and weighed 

 half a pound. At death the fish was 29 inches long, 6f inches 



