MUSEUM NOTES 



547 



George N. Pindur, of tlie American Museum, 

 with the courteous coUaboration of the direc- 

 tors and staffs of this and the other institu- 

 tions concerned. The cover of the book has 

 been designed by Mr. Albert Operti of the 

 American Museum. 



As a result of Dr. Frank M. Chapman's 

 expedition to South America, material was 

 obtained at Chimborazo for a large panoramic 

 faunal group of that region. With the assist- 

 ance of Mr. George K. Cherrie a splendid 

 collection of ])irds was obtained on the table- 

 land at an altitude of one hundred and 

 twenty-five thousand feet. A trip from Lake 

 Titicaca to Cuzco, down the valley of the 

 Urubamba, was taken under the joint 

 auspices of the American Museum, Yale 

 University, and the National Geographic 

 Society, for the purpose of making an orni- 

 thological survey of this region. At Men- 

 doza, in the Argentine, Dr. Chapman made 

 connection with Messrs. Leo Miller and 

 Howarth Boyle, who had been two years in 

 the field securing a superb collection consist- 

 ing of nine thousand birds and fifteen hundred 

 mammals. Material was obtained at Men- 

 doza for a group of rheas of the western 

 Argentine plains. From Rio, in Brazil, a 

 short trip was made to the Organ Moun- 

 tains, where a collection of three hundred and 

 fifty birds was secured. 



In appreciation of his valuable services in 

 bringing together the superb collection of 

 North American woods forming the Jesup Col- 

 ection, and also of his scientific contributions 

 to silviculture, a bronze bust of Professor 

 Charles S. Sargent has been ordered by the 

 trustees to be placed in the forestry hall of 

 the American Museum. The bust is to be 

 executed by the well-known sculptor S. C. 

 Pietro, to whom is to be attributed the bust 

 of John Burroughs — a copy of which, now in 

 the bird hall, was presented to the Museum 

 by Mr. Henry Ford. A bust of John Muir, 

 by the same artist, presented to the Museum 

 by Mrs. E. H. Harriman, will occupy a posi- 

 tion in the forestry hall as a companion to 

 the bust of Professor Sargent. 



Mr. Charles Robert Knight will hold 

 an exhibition of his models and paintings of 

 modern animals in the west assembly hall of 

 the American Museum from December 15 

 to January 15; also at the same time a first 



view of his new mural decoration of prehis- 

 toric animals, in the hall of the age of man on 

 the fourth floor. This mural, nine feet by 

 fifty feet in size, shows a herd of reindeer and 

 a herd of mammoths — two of the most 

 notable animals of the period when the cave 

 man flourished. The canvas has been exe- 

 cuted with unusual power. 



Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews, in charge of 

 the American Museum's Asiatic zoological 

 expedition, writing from Li-chiang fu, Yun- 

 nan Province, China, on October 7, reports the 

 expedition as on the way to the Thibetan 

 frontier, in the neighborhood of which col- 

 lecting will be done until snow fills the passes. 

 Owing to unfavorable reports from Kiu- 

 chau the expedition will confine operations to 

 Yunnan Province, where the high Thibetan 

 fauna in the north and the tropical Burma and 

 Tonking fauna in the south promi.se rich re- 

 sults. Except for the little work done by the 

 Anderson expedition in 1875, this province is 

 practically a new field zoologically, and at the 

 time of writing, after twenty days continuous 

 riding into the interior, the Museum expedi- 

 tion was encamped in country where no other 

 zoologist had ever been and where the indi- 

 cations for collecting were exceedingly favor- 

 able. A fine series of tupaia and two panda 

 skins were obtained in the first three days 

 among 112 specimens, and serow, goral, 

 wapiti, bear, and leopard were reported in 

 varying numbers on a neighboring mountain, 

 eighteen thousand feet high. All members 

 of the expedition were reported well. 



Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, chair- 

 man of the Local Committee, has appointed 

 the following Honorary Reception Committee 

 of the City of New York, in connection with 

 the meetings of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science: His Honor, 

 John Purroy Mitchel, Elmer Ellsworth 

 Brown, Nicholas Murray Butler, 

 Andrew Carnegie, Joseph H. Choate, 

 R. Fulton Cutting, Cleveland H. Dodge, 

 Henry C. Frick, James B. Ford, A. Barton 

 Hepburn, George G. Heye, Archer M. 

 Huntington, Walter B. James, V. Everit 

 Macy, Emerson McMillin, Sidney Ed- 

 ward Mezes, Mrs. Henry Fairfield 

 Osborn, M. I. Pupin, Theodore Roosevelt, 

 Mrs. Willard D. Straight, Mrs. Freder- 

 ick Ferris Thompson, and Frederic C. 

 Walcott. 



