MUSEUM NOTES 



Since the last issue of the Journal the 

 following persons have become members of 

 the Museum: 



Fellow, Mrs. Ezra Ripley Thayer; 



Ldfe Members, Mrs. Maud W. Adams, 

 Mrs. Percy Rivington Pyne, Mrs. J. 

 Henry Watson, Miss Olivia Cutting and 

 Mr. Thomas M. Peters; 



Annual Members, Mrs. A. T. Bailey, Mrs. 

 John S. Bassett, Mrs. Dennis G. Brussel, 

 Mrs. S. G. Cannon, Mrs. Stuart Crockett, 

 Mrs. Arthur Lipper, Mrs. J. C. W. Low- 

 REY, Mrs. William Menke, Mrs. Henry 

 F. De Puy, Mrs. Enos S. T. Richardson, 

 Mrs. Drew King Robinson, Mrs. R. L. 

 Spotts, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Spadone, Mrs. 

 Graham Sumner, Mrs. Clermont H. 

 Wilcox, Mrs. Josephine Zeman, Miss 

 Edith M. Clark, Miss Minnie Helen 

 Hicks, Miss Grace E. Lynes, Miss Har- 

 riet F. Massey, Miss Eva C. Putney, 

 Miss Catherine L. Richardson, Dr. Otto 

 Koenig, Dr. George W. Kosmak, Dr. 

 Rudolph F. Rabe and Messrs. Emil V. 

 Kohnstamm, Howard V. Meeks, G. Hall 

 Roosevelt, H. Ernest Schnakenberg, 

 Alexander M. Stewart, and Graham 

 Sumner. 



On Wednesday evening, April 22, a joint 

 meeting of the National Sculpture Society, 

 the Architectural League of New York and 

 the MacDowell Club will be held under the 

 auspices of the American Museum. Mr. 

 Carl E. Akeley will give an illustrated talk 

 on hunting in African jungles and this will be 

 followed by an inspection in the Museum 

 elephant studio of the African hall model 

 which has been constructed under the super- 

 vision of Mr. Akeley and of the life size ele- 

 phant group he has in preparation for this hall, 

 as well as of various of his animal sculptures. 

 This recognition by the artists of New York 

 of the methods and results of the taxidermy 

 developed by Mr. Akeley as in close alliance 

 or even in part synonymous with the work 

 of the sculptor is a step of great importance 

 for the museum of the future. The ele- 

 phant studio and model of the African hall 

 will be on exhibition to the public on cer- 

 tain days to be announced later but they 

 are open at all times to members and their 

 friends upon presentation of their member- 

 ship tickets. 

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The cover design of this number of the 

 Journal is from the rough clay model made by 

 Mr. A. Phimister Proctor for a lion group to 

 take its place with the various other groups 

 of African animals in the future African hall 

 of the Museum. 



The Copper Queen Mine model, the most 

 elaborate and realistic mine model in any 

 museum, has recently been opened to the 

 public and will be described and illustrated 

 in the May Journal. The data and means 

 necessaiy for the construction of the model 

 were furnished by Dr. James Douglas and 

 the opening of the model marks the culmina- 

 tion of more than three years of painstaking 

 work on the part of Mr. A. Briesemeister and 

 assistants under the direction of Dr. E. O. 

 Hovey of the department of geology. 



The American Association of Museums will 

 hold its ninth annual series of meetings in 

 Milwaukee on May 19 and 20 and in Chicago 

 on May 21. 



In recognition of his notable achievements 

 in the field of natural science, Professor Henry 

 Fairfield Osborn was presented with a gold 

 medal by the National Institute of Social 

 Sciences on March 20 at the New York 

 Academy of Medicine. 



The President and Trustees of the Ameri- 

 can Museum have the honor of announcing 

 a special lecture for members, to be given by 

 Sir Francis Edward Younghusband on May 6 

 at 8:15, the subject being "Tibet and the 

 Entrance to Lhasa." Sir Francis Younghus- 

 band was the British commissioner to Tibet 

 in 1902-4, the leader of the British Mission 

 to Tibet, 1903-4 and is already well known to 

 American readers through his various publi- 

 cations among which are Heart of a Conti- 

 nent; Relief of Chitral; South Africa of To-day; 

 Kashmir; and India and Tibet. 



An exhibition of sculpture, paintings and 

 drawings by Eli Harvey will be held at the 

 Museum from April 6 to April 20. Many 

 members of the Museum are already familiar 

 with Mr. Harvey's work at the New York 

 Zoological Park, where he was commissioned 

 in 1901 to do the sculpture for the Lion 

 House, and also with his sculpture in the 



