MUSEUM NOTES 



Since the last is ue of the Journal the 

 ollowing persons have been elected to 

 membership in the Museum: 



Sustaining Members, Mrs. Allen S. Apgar 

 and Mrs. L. W. Faber; 



Life Members, Mrs. Samuel Quincy, Mrs. 

 George H. Richardson, Miss M. Eliza 

 Audubon, Miss Cornelia Prime and 

 Messrs. D. Everett Waid and Norton 

 Perkins; 



Annual Members, Mrs. Nicholas Biddle, 

 Mrs. George P. Black, Mrs. Lloyd Bryce, 

 Mrs. Elmer E. Cooley, Mrs. Evelyn A. 

 Cregin, Mrs. William K. Draper, Mme. 

 F. G. Fara Forni, Mrs. H. Hirsch, Mrs. 

 Charles E. O'Hara, Mrs. Leonie M. Scott, 

 Mrs. J. Spencer Turner, Miss Clara J. 

 Benedict, Miss Gertrude Parsons, Dr. 

 Sarah Belcher Hardy, Dr. Harris Ken- 

 nedy, Dr. Charles H. Peck, Dr. John B. 

 Walker, Capt. C. P. Radclyffe Dugmore 

 and Messrs. John F. Archbold, George P. 

 Black, Joseph A. Blake, Jr., Edward 

 Born, Charles Hilton Brown, George J. 

 Chambers, Frederic A. Dallett, Arthur 

 DuBois, Frederick S. Duncan, Thomas F. 

 Gilroy, Jr., E. Llewellyn Harper, Albert 

 Herter, Frederic C. Mills, Louis M. 

 Moms, F. Palmer Page, F. Louis Palmieri, 

 Robert Pariser, Ira A. Place, Orlando 

 B. Potter, R. Burnside Potter, Joh.m 

 QuiNN, H. Sandhagen, Bernard Schutz and 

 Adolph Schwob. 



Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn de- 

 livered the Hitchcock Lectures at the Uni- 

 versity of Cahfornia on " Men of the Old 

 Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and 

 Art." The five lectures occupied successive 

 afternoons from February 16 to 20. 



In the course of his journey through Cali- 

 fornia, Professor Osborn revisited the famous 

 deposits of Rancho La Brea, where collections 

 arc being made on a very large scale for the 

 Museum of History, Science and Art of Los 

 Angeles, under the supervision of Director 

 Frank S. Daggett, and with the cooperation of 

 Messrs. Merriam, Fisher and Miller. A com- 

 plete series of mounted specimens, represent- 

 ing this entire fauna, will undoubtedly be 

 secured for the Los Angeles Museum. At 

 the same time the much-herakled discoveries 

 of human remains at Rancho La Brea were 

 made, and the conditions of the discoveries 

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were carefully studied by Professor Osborn 

 and Professor John C. Merriam of the Uni- 

 versity of California. The results will be 

 published in due time by Director Daggett 

 and Professor Merriam. 



The Hitchcock Lectures on "Men of 

 the Old Stone Age" will be repeated at 

 Columbia University on successive after- 

 noons, April 13 to 17, Havemeyer Hall, at 

 4:15. The subjects are as follows: 



I — The Origin of Man 

 II — The Three Oldest Races 

 III — The Neanderthal Race 



IV — Culture and Appearance of the Cro- 



Magnon Race 



V — Art of the Cro-Magnon Race 



The.se lectures will be published in the 

 autumn by Scribner's under the same title. 



The Congo Expedition under Messrs. 

 Herbert Lang and James Chapin, which in 

 cooperation with the Belgian Government 

 has been carrying on active field work in 

 central Africa for the past four years, is now 

 devoting its entire attention to the shipment 

 of its collections. A letter written by Mr. 

 Chapin at Avakubi on January 12 states 

 "that the task of transporting to Stanleyville 

 the collections deposited at Avakubi has been 

 completed and that fifty loads, as well, of 

 those from Medje have likewise been for- 

 warded to Stanleyville, where all our cara- 

 vans are reported to have arrived without 

 the slightest mi.shap. To insure the greatest 

 security, each was accompanied by one of our 

 native assistants. The recruitment of por- 

 ters here offers considerable difficulty, as this 

 post is on the main road between Stanleyville 

 and the Uganda frontier and the needs of the 

 station itself are therefore great; but the 

 State officials have always assisted us in the 

 m.ost cordial manner and the work has pro- 

 gressed steadily and successfully. Up to the 

 present date 637 porters have been sent off, 

 as well as nine large canoes, the contents of 

 which would represent loads for at least 

 180 men, by way of the Aruwimi River." 



It is expected that the expedition will reach 

 New York early in the summer. Neither Mr. 

 Lang nor Mr. Chapin has been ill one day 

 during a four years' sojourn in the tropics and 

 they have gathered together probably the most 

 extensive and valuable collection of the Congo 



