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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



BERGH, Mrs. W. K. Harrington, Mrs. 

 G. J. Helmer, Mrs. Jefferson Hogan, 

 Mrs. Elon H. Hooker, Mrs. Reuben 

 Howes, ]Mrs. Arthur B. Jekyll, Mrs. 

 DeLancey Kane, Mrs. Ernest L. Simpson, 

 Mrs. De Cost Smith, Mrs. E. W. Sparrow, 

 Mrs. John Stemme, Mrs. H. Grant Straus, 

 Mrs. Albert Strauss, Mrs. Horace M. 

 S-m:TLAND, Mrs. Theodore Tiedemann, 

 Misses Florence Gayley, Margaret Hoe, 

 and Cathleen Vanderbilt, Reverend 

 Andrew Chalmers Wilson, Dr. S. A. Ellis, 

 Dr. Joseph S. Wheelwright, Dr. R. H. 

 Wylie, and IMessrs. David A. Ansbacher, 

 C. L. Bausher, Richard P. H. Durkee, 

 Fred. T. Fleitmann, Henry S. Fleming, 

 Dudley G. Gautier, Robert L. Gerry, 

 Robert McM. Gillespie, Arthur G. Hig- 

 gins, E. S. Huff, William R. Innis, Henry 

 James, Jr., Frederick Kuttroff, William 

 M. Leslie, Ormond Eugene Lewis, Fred. 

 Muller-Schall, Charles H. Russell, 

 Herman Humboldt Shulof, Frederick 

 BouLTON Simpson, Martin Strauss, Lionel 

 SuTRo, Noah W. Taussig, Thomas D. Van 

 Dusen, Ernst G. Victor, C. [Blaine 

 Warner and A. Murray Young. 



Dr. Clark Wissler and Dr. Robert H. 

 LowiE were delegates from the American 

 Museum to the Nineteenth International 

 Congress of Americanists, which convened in 

 Washington, December 27-31, 1915. Dr. 

 Lewie also represented the New York Acad- 

 emy of Sciences and Dr. Pliny E. Goddard 

 of the Museum was delegate for the American 

 Ethnological Society. Meetings were held 

 in affiliation with the Section of Anthropology 

 of the Second Pan-American Scientific Con- 

 gress and with the American Anthropological 

 Society, the American Folk-Lore Society, 

 the American Historical Association and the 

 ArchiEological Institute of America. 



In the Section of Archaeology Mr. Charles 

 W. Mead read a paper on " The Puma Motive 

 in Ancient Peruvian Art"; Mr. Alanson 

 Skinner on "Chronological Relations of the 

 Coastal Algonkin Culture"; Mr. N. C. Nel- 

 son on "Pueblo Ruins of the Galisteo Basin, 

 New Mexico "; Dr. H. J. Spindenon "Recent 

 Progress in the Study of Maya Art"; and 

 Dr. Clark Wissler, Dr. C. A. Reeds and Mr. 

 Leslie Spier on "Excavations on the Abbott 

 Farm at Trenton, New Jersey." In the 

 Section of Ethnology papers were read by Dr. 

 Clark Wissler on "Comparative Study of 



Pawnee and Blackfoot Rituals" (by title 

 only); Dr. Herbert J. Spinden on "Origin 

 and Distribution of Agriculture in the New 

 World " ; and Professor A. L. Kroeber on "The 

 Pacific Coast Tribes of North America." 



On Thursday evenings during January a 

 course of four lectures on "Varieties of 

 Culture among North American Indians," 

 were given by the department of anthro- 

 pology of the American Museum. Dr. 

 Robert H. Lowie spoke on "The Indians 

 of the East," and "The Indians of the 

 Plains," and Dr. Pliny E. Goddard on "The 

 Indians of the Southwest," and "The In- 

 dians of the Pacific Coast." 



A phase of the work of the Museum's 

 department of education, which is growing 

 faster than facilities can be provided, is the 

 lecture and demonstration work with the 

 blind children of Manhattan and the Bronx. 

 Since 1910, when it was first inaugurated 

 through the Jonathan Thorne Memorial 

 Fund, this work has been a regular part of 

 the education department's activities, but 

 during 1915 it has been possible to extend 

 and reorganize the facilities afforded. As a 

 result, classes of blind children from the pubUc 

 schools now visit the Museum from ten to 

 fifteen times each month, as against twice a 

 month in 1913. The aim has been to 

 cooperate as perfectly as possible with the 

 schools and teachers in regard to time, sub- 

 ject and treatment, and secondly to have the 

 classes as small as possible so that each child 

 may handle at leisure each specimen or 

 exhibit and may ask questions about it. 

 Talks are given upon a series of subjects, 

 for example r "How our Furred Friends 

 spend the Winter"; "Native Birds and their 

 Nests"; "How Men Travel"; "Cotton, 

 Wool and Silk." Miss Ann E. Thomas, who 

 has charge of this work, makes a point of 

 showing as many natural specimens as pos- 

 sible, in addition to models. Appreciation of 

 the work is so general and practical that 

 twice as many classes are asked for as can be 

 provided with the present equipment. 



Mr. Barnum Brown returned early in 

 January, bringing a carload of fossil dinosaur 

 bones, chiefly from the Belly River Cretaceous 

 formation of Alberta. The collection com- 

 prises two complete skeletons; one of the 

 horned dinosaur Ccratops, of which the Mu- 



