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Since the last issue of the Journal the 

 following persons have become members of 

 the Museum: 



Life Members, Messrs. Charles E. Potts, 

 Robert D. Sterling and Master Walter 

 Gray Crump, Jr.; 



Annual Members, Mrs. G. Lister Car- 

 lisle, Jr., Mrs. Clarence Morgan Cod- 

 dington, Mrs. P. L. Fisher, Mrs. Furman 

 V. Gaines, Mrs. George Ingraham, Mrs. 

 Frederic W. Jackson, Mrs. Pitney John- 

 son, Mrs. G. E. Kissel, Mrs. Frederick J. 

 KiJHNE, Mrs. Henry Lilly, Mrs. Hugh 

 Ross Mackenzie, Mrs. Robert Ridgway, 

 Mrs. Hilborne L. Roosevelt, Mrs. Jesse 

 St. John, Mrs. John B. Solley, Jr., Mrs. 

 H. B. Tillotson, Mrs. Henry S. Warner, 

 Mrs. J. Kearny Warren, Misses Marga- 

 ret S. KiNGSFORD, Elsie B. Kohn, and 

 Eliza Shardlow, Dr. W. A. Bastedo, Dr. 

 Harlow Brooks, Dr. Henry S. Patterson 

 and Messrs. G. Lister Carlisle, Jr., 

 Roland R. Conklin, H. E. Eckstein, M. 

 Maurice Eckstein, William G. Gaston, 

 Samuel P. Goldman, Abraham Harris, 

 R. C. Leffingwell, Oscar R. Lichtenstein, 

 Joseph L. Lilienthal, Charles S. McCul- 

 loh, Lawrence Priddy, Arnold L.Scheuer, 

 Herbert B. Shonk, Abel L Smith, Jr., 

 William H. Strawn, Charles Edw. Rob- 

 inson and C. p. Stallknecht. 



Mr. Knud Rasmussen, the Danish ex- 

 l)lorer, will sail from Denmark on April 1 for 

 Greenland, in his ship the "Kap York." 

 He will carry mail for the members of the 

 Crocker Land party now at Etah, and also 

 for Dr. E. O. Hovey, in charge of the relief 

 ship "Cluett" in North Star Bay. Al- 

 though no fears are felt for the safety of the 

 two expeditions, in order to cover all con- 

 tingencies, arrangements have been made 

 with Mr. Rasmu.ssen to extend to either or 

 both of the parties such assistance as he may 

 find necessary, and should the shij) "Cluett" 

 have been rendered unseaworthy through 

 ice crushing in Wolstenholmc Sound, the 

 parties will return on the "Kap York" by 

 way of Denmark. The Danes are expert 

 navigators and know this coast better than 

 any other people, and the Museum is fortu- 

 nate in being able to place this matter in Mr. 

 Rasmussen's hands. 



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The American Museum's Asiatic Zoo- 

 logical Expedition has been fortunate in 

 securing the services of Mr. Edmund Heller, 

 the well-known zoological collector, who has 

 recently returned from South America after 

 a year's work with the Yale University Peru- 

 vian Expedition. Mr. Heller has had a 

 varied field experience in many parts of the 

 world, perhaps his best-known expedition 

 work being that with the Roosevelt African 

 Expedition. He will take charge of the col- 

 lecting of small mammals on the Museum's 

 expedition to China. 



President Osborn is preparing to deliver 

 two lectures on "The Origin and Evolution 

 of Life on the Earth," before the National 

 Academy of Sciences at its spring meeting, 

 April 17-19, in Washington. In these lec- 

 tures he will describe some of the discoveries 

 made through the explorations of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History during the 

 past twenty-five years, since the depart- 

 ment of vertebrate palaeontology was estab- 

 lished. 



These lectures constitute the fourth course 

 of the Hale lectures, the first of which was de- 

 livered by Sir Ernest Rutherford, F. R. S., in 

 April, 1914, under the title "The Constitu- 

 tion of Matter and the Evolution of the Ele- 

 ments." 



The second was delivered by Dr. William 

 ^^'allace Campbell, director of the Lick Ob- 

 servatory, at the Chicago meeting of the 

 Academy, December, 1914, under the title 

 "The Evolution of the Stars and the Forma- 

 tion of the Earth." The third course of 

 lectures of this series was delivered by Pro- 

 fessor T. C. Chamberlin, in April, 1915, on 

 "The Evolution of the Surface of the Earth." 

 Two other courses are to follow Professor 

 Osborn's, one on " The Cellular Basis of Life," 

 and one on "The Evolution of Man." The 

 foundation of the series was a gift to the 

 National Academy of Sciences, by the 

 children of William Ellery Hale, in memory 

 of their father. When finished, the entire 

 course of lectures is designed to give a com- 

 plete history of the modern aspects of the 

 evolution theory, from the nebular stage of 

 the universe up to man. It is then designed 

 to bring the lectures together in a single 

 volume. 



