MUSEUM NOTES 



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fauna ever assembled. When added to what 

 the Museum already possesses through earlier 

 expeditions to Africa, the African collections 

 will no longer need large additions and field 

 work in Africa will be discontinued for the 

 present. 



Through the generosity of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, tlie library of the 

 American Museum now possesses a complete 

 set of Carnegie Institution publications num- 

 bering two hundred volumes. The subjects 

 include archaeology, astronomy, botany, 

 economics, "engineering, geology, history, 

 literature, mathematics, medicine and zool- 

 ogy. 



Mr. Paul J. Rainey has presented to the 

 Museum forty-five mammals from Africa, in- 

 cluding twelve lions, adult and young. One 

 of the lions, an old black male, is an unusually 

 fine specimen, distinguished by the excep- 

 tional black color and by the size of the mane 

 which grew far back on the body. This is 

 probably the finest specimen of a wild lion in 

 existence. It will be used as a leader for the 

 lion group for the proposed African hall and 

 completes the series of specimens for that 

 group. 



The Museum has purchased from Dr. E. 

 Gaffron, Berlin, his entire collection of pre- 

 historic objects from the cemetery in Nasca, 

 Peru. The collection consists of some four 

 hundred beautifully decorated pottery vessels 

 and several hundred other objects, and was 

 made for Dr. Gaffron in 1907 by Mr. F. W. 

 Vollmann, through whom the purchase has 

 been accomplished. 



Some of the most interesting of the casts 

 from the Otto Finsch collection on exhibition 

 in the South Sea Island hall have been in- 

 stalled in the archaeological hall to illustrate 

 important racial types of the natives ©f the 

 South Sea Islands. The races shown are 

 Tasmanian, Papuan, Melanesian and Malay. 

 Among the casts the Tasmanian is of the 

 greatest importance as there is no longer a 

 living representative of the race, the last 

 Tasmanian having died in 1876. The Ameri- 

 can Museum cast is from the original in the 

 Sydney Museum, Australia. 



The Museum has acquired from the estate 

 of the late Edwin E. Howell of Washington, 

 a well known collector and dealer along the 

 lines of several natural history subjects, the 



entire collection of meteorites which belonged 

 to his establishment at the time of his death. 

 The collection consists of representatives of 

 fifty-four falls and finds, aggregating about 

 one hundred kilometers in weight and con- 

 taining several desirable additions to the Mu- 

 seum's series. It includes two which have 

 not been heretofore represented, namely the 

 Ainsworth and Williamstown irons. This 

 acquisition was made possible through the 

 generosity of Mr. J. P. Morgan. 



Mr. Amos One Road, or to call him by 

 his real Indian name. Jingling Cloud, proved 

 an interesting and interested visitor at the 

 Museum. This young Wahpeton Sioux is in 

 the city studying in the Bible Teachers' 

 Training School. Although only twenty-six 

 years of age he has a surprising amount of 

 knowledge concerning the customs of the 

 Eastern Dakotas. Accordingly Mr. Alanson 

 Skinner and Dr. Robert H. Lowie found it 

 profitable to take down from his dictation 

 notes on many subjects of ethnological inter- 

 est such as war customs, terms of relation- 

 ship, social usages and ceremonials. 



The department of ornithology has re- 

 cently received an unusually rich collection 

 of birds from Mr. W. B. Richardson, who has 

 been collecting birds and mammals in Ecua- 

 dor for the Museum. The collection com- 

 prises about thirteen hundred specimens 

 representing fuUy three hundred and seventy 

 species, many of which are new to the Mu- 

 seum collection. 



A NUMBER of new exhibits dealing with 

 insect-borne diseases have been installed in 

 the hall of public health. These include 

 first, a series of insect-carriers of disease 

 mounted under magnifying glasses; .second, a 

 model of a pier protected against the landing 

 of rats from plague-infected ships; third, a 

 model of a rat-kilhng squad in San Francisco 

 and fourth, various maps showing methods of 

 drainage for the prevention of malaria. 

 Specimens of ticks and tsetse flies which carry 

 disease have been furnished for this exhibit 

 by the British Museum and a series of Cali- 

 fornia ground squirrels (carriers of the plague 

 bacillus) have been presented by the United 

 States Public Health Service. 



Dr. C.-E. a. Winslow is engaged in an 

 investigation of sanitary conditions for the 

 Home Office of the Metropolitan Life Insur- 



