M 



useum 



Notes 



SixcE the last issue of the Journal the fol- 

 lowing persons have become members of the 

 Museum: 



Benefactor, Dr. James Douglas. 



Life Members, Dr. Ira Otis Tracy, and 

 Messrs. S. Prentiss Baldwin, Henry McC. 

 Bangs, Louis J. Ehret, John H. Love, M. 

 Taylor Pyne, Finley J. Sheparo, Irving 

 K. Taylor, and A. Van Cortlandt. 



Sustaining Members, Mrs. H. B. Duryea, 

 Mrs. Isaac N. Seligman, and Mrs. P. A. 



VALENapjE. 



Annual Members, IMrs. J. K. Burke, Mrs. 

 R. L. Fowler, Jr., Mrs. Thomas Pow^ell 

 Fowler, Mrs. G. Maurice Heckscher, 

 Mrs. C. R. Hudson, Mrs. Walter Lewi- 

 soHN, Mrs. Daniel Gray Reid, Mrs. E. S. 

 Reynal, Mrs. C. L. F. Robinson, Mrs. 

 Francis Rogers, Mrs. Wm. N. Shaw, Mrs. 

 A. F. ScHAUFPLER, Mrs. Henry W. Sage, 

 Mrs. C. M. Roome, Mrs. Edwin Thorne, 

 Mrs. J. W. Thorne, Mrs. Maximilian 

 Toch, Mrs. Chas. Weiss, Misses Rosie 

 Bernheimer, and K. C. Rockwood, Dr. 

 J. R. Fabricius, Dr. Max Wallerstein, 

 and Messrs. Julius Ochs Adler, Copley 

 Amory, Jr., Henry de Forest Baldwin, 

 Henry S. Bowers, John McE. Bowman, 

 Newcomb Carlton, Leopold Demuth, 

 Max Eisman, Edwin Frankenstein, Wil- 

 liam H. Gelshenen, Albert Goldman, 

 Rudolph Guiterman, Theo. Hetzler, 

 George Clay Hollister, Elkan Holzman, 

 Francis T. Homer, Edwin C. Johnston. 

 Robert B. Knowles, Frank E. Law, Wil- 

 liam M. Lybrand, Victor K. McElheny, 

 Jr., Robert J. Masbach, George O. May, 

 Paul Piel, A. W. Popper, Auguste Richard, 

 Monroe D. Robinson, Alfred Roelker, 

 Jr., William J. Roome, Chapman Ropes, 

 Edward L. Rosenfeld, Henry Schaefer, 

 A. H. Hchefer, Carl Seeman, Arthur L. 

 Solomon, Victor Sutro, Roderick Terry, 

 Jr., Chas. Wanninger, Louis Watjen, 

 Emil Weil, Theodore Werner, and M. A. 

 Wesendo.nx'k. 



In connection with the death of Mr. Scth 

 Low on September 17, 1916, the trustees of 

 the American Museum at their recent meeting 

 unanimously adopted the following resolution: 

 In the death of Mr. Seth Low, the American 

 Museum has lost one of the most distinguished 

 546 



of the many public-spirited and large-minded 

 citizens who have served the interests of the 

 institution during the past half century. Mr. 

 Low's name followed that of Al)ram S. Hewitt, 

 as a former mayor of the city, who gave of his 

 valuable time and experience to the upbuild- 

 ing of our great institution. As president of 

 Columbia L^niversity in 1901, he was the first 

 great educator to recognize that the Univer- 

 sity should not duplicate the work of the 

 Museum, but should send its students here 

 for their advanced practical studies and re- 

 searches. This union has led to the training 

 of many men who are fast becoming eminent 

 in several fields of natural history. He first 

 served the Museum on the East Asiatic Com- 

 mittee, with Messrs. Hill, Harriman, Dodge, 

 and Schiff. Elected a trustee May 5, 1905, 

 he served on the Nominating Committee, the 

 Jesup Memorial Committee, the Executive 

 Committee, the Committee on the Museum 

 for the Blind, the Committee on Investiga- 

 tion of Museum Administration, and the 

 Auditing Committee. To each he gave his 

 valuable time and rare judgment in public 

 affairs. During the eleven years of his life 

 as trustee, he never hesitated when oppor- 

 tunity offered to show his intense interest in 

 the public welfare, and his faith in the great 

 public educational work which the Museum 

 is undertaking. 



A new guide book dealing with all the 

 scientific museums of Greater New York and 

 entitled A Guide to the Nature Treasures of 

 New York City, has just been published by the 

 American Museum. It is designed to pro- 

 vide under one cover and without necessita- 

 ting undue expenditure of time, an indication 

 of the city's resources along natural history 

 lines, at the same time entering into sufficient 

 detail to arouse interest in the exhibits and to 

 enable the student of any particular branch or 

 subject to know what he may find and where. 

 The book is profusely illustrated and pro- 

 vided also with maps, plans, and full direc- 

 tions for transit. It deals with the American 

 Museum of Natural History, the New York 

 Botanical Garden, the New York Zoological 

 Park, the New York Aquarium, the Museum 

 of the Brooklyn Institute, the Children's 

 Museum, Brooklyn, and the Brooklyn Bo- 

 tanic Garden, and has been prepared by Mr. 



