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to make additional studies of environment 

 for the Nahant tide-pool group, which is now 

 being constructed in the Museum under his 

 supervision. 



A NEW edition of the Museum's guide 

 leaflet, "Habitat Groups of North American 

 Birds," came from the press this summer 

 and may now be obtained at the Museum. 



Mr. Leslie Spier has been added to the 

 scientific staff of the Museum as an assistant 

 in the department of anthropology. For 

 the present, he will care for the archaeological 

 and ethnological collections exhibited from 

 the Eastern States. 



The American Scenic and Historic Preser- 

 vation Society will hold a meeting jointly 

 with the Palisades Interstate Park Commis- 

 sion at the American Museum of Natural 

 History on Thursday, October 26, at 8.15 

 p. M. The Honorable George W. Perkins, of 

 the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, 

 and the Honorable George D. Pratt, of the 

 New York Conservation Commission, will 

 give addresses illustrated by stereopticon 

 slides and moving-picture films. 



The Museum's expedition to Nicaragua, 

 under Messrs. Clarence R. Halter and L. 

 Alfred Mannhardt, will remain in the field 

 until January. To date, scientific collections 

 of reptiles and fishes have been made from 

 the eastern coastal belt — and shipments 

 north of living specimens of Basiliscus and 

 Caiman are being prepared for use in the 

 reptile group work of the Museum. The ex- 

 pedition will now carry the survey into the 

 mountains of the interior, to Lake Nicaragua, 

 and the western coast. 



Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, in charge of 

 the Museum's Asiatic zoological expedition, 

 reports that nearly two hundred mammals 

 and four hundred birds have been collected 

 in the vicinity of Foochow, in the province 

 of Fu-kien. Mr. Edmund Heller has joined 

 the expedition, which on August 10 was on 

 the way to Yunnanfu, where prospects are 

 very good for making important collections 

 in Yunnan Province. 



Dr. p. E. Goddard visited, during the 

 summer, the White Mountain Apache of 

 Arizona. He made a clan census of these 

 Indians and a studv of their social organiza- 



tion. \Miile among the Apache, he was very 

 fortunate in witnessing two elaborate cere- 

 monies for adolescent girls, securing still 

 and motion pictures. Certain features of 

 these ceremonies had never before been 

 photographed. 



Mr. Louis R. Sullivan has been added 

 to the scientific staff of the department of 

 anthropology as assistant in physical anthro- 

 pology. Mr. Sullivan will care for the 

 skeletal and other somatological material in 

 the department and will develop exhibitions 

 showing racial differences and man's rela- 

 tions to the Primates. 



In response to the interest in museum 

 exhibits as a source of inspiration for textile 

 and costume designs, which has recently been 

 aroused by Mr. M. D. C. Crawford among 

 manufacturers, designers, and distributors 

 of clothing and fabrics, the department of 

 anthropology of the American Museum of 

 Natural History offers a course of four 

 lectures dealing with primitive textile arts in 

 ancient and modern times. The lectures will 

 l)e given at the Museum building on Tuesdays 

 October 3, 10, 17, and 24, at 8:15 p. m. On 

 October 3, Mr. M. D. C. Crawford will speak 

 on "Special Textile Processes and Products"; 

 October 10, Dr. Clark Wissler will speak on 

 "Primitive Textile Arts"; October 17, Dr. 

 H. J. Spinden will lecture on "Textile Arts 

 of Mexico and Central America," and Mr. 

 M. D. C. Crawford will follow on October 24, 

 with a consideration of "The Textile Arts of 

 Peru." 



A large collection of insects has been 

 presented to the Museum by Dr. Edward B. 

 Southwick, for many years economic ento- 

 mologist for New York's Department of 

 Parks. In addition to the insects themselves, 

 the collection contains some fine examples of 

 insect work in the form of nests and borings. 



In connection with the teachers' institute 

 organized by President Wilcox, of the New 

 York Board of Education, during the two 

 weeks September 11-23, the staff of the de- 

 partment of public education of the American 

 Museum has given a number of lectures and 

 addresses in several of the city schools calling 

 the attention of teachers to the opportunities 

 they have for obtaining assistance from the 

 Museum in cooperation with the school work 

 Given before audiences of teachers to a 



