MUSEUM NOTES 



Since the last issue of the Journal the 

 following persons have become members of 

 the Museum: 



Founder, Hon. Joseph H. Choate; 



Associate Founders, Messrs. Cleveland 

 H. Dodge, Archer M. Huntington, Arthur 

 CuRTiss James, Charles Lanier, Ogden 

 Mills, Percy R. Pyne and William Rocke- 

 feller; 



Life Members, Mrs, Robert Stewart, 

 Miss Katharine DuBois and Mr. J. K. 

 Robinson; 



Sustainiyig Member, Mrs. Robert Stew- 

 art; 



Annual Members, Mrs. Francis C. Bar- 

 low, Mrs. H. B. Goldsmith, Mrs. J. M. 

 Huber, Mrs. Eugene Lewis, Mrs. Thomas 

 P. McKenna, Dr. Robert Abbe, Prof. 

 Wesley C. Mitchell, Rev. J. Frederick 

 Talcott and Messrs. Samuel Frank, 

 Moe Jacob, William Krone, William 

 SiEGEL, David Shearman Taber, Jr., 

 Ferdinand Weber and Joseph Wittmann. 



The zoological collections which, through 

 the generosity of Colonel Roosevelt, the 

 Museum has received from the Roosevelt 

 expedition to South America, amount to 

 twenty-five hundred birds and four hundred 

 and fifty mammals. 



Work was begun by George K. Cherrie 

 and Leo E. Miller, whom Colonel Roosevelt 

 took with him as representatives of the 

 Museum, in the vicinity of Asuncion, Para- 

 guay, in the early part of November. The 

 next collecting station was in the vicinity of 

 Curumba. From this point, the expedition 

 proceeded northward through San Luiz de 

 Caceres to Utiarity and Tapirapoan. 



At Utiarity Mr. Anthony Fiala, "chief 

 of commissary," started with Lieutenant 

 Lauriodo Sta. Anna, and six natives, down 

 the Papagaio, Juruena and Tapajoz Rivers 

 at Santarem. The expedition continued its 

 five-hundred-mile overland ride to the Rio 

 da Duvida. From here Mr. Miller with 

 Second Lieutenant Joaquim Manuel Vieira 

 de Mello, Euzebid Paulo de Oliveira, and 

 Heinrich Reinish, representatives of the 

 Brazihan Government, went overland three 

 days, then down the Gy Parana and Madeira 

 Rivers and up the Negro to Manaos. 



On February 27, the main party, consisting 

 of Colonel Roosevelt, Colonel Rondon, 



Lieutenant Lyra and Doctor Cajazeira, of 

 the Brazilian Army, Kermit Roosevelt, 

 George K. Cherrie and fifteen canoemen, 

 started on what proved to be a perilous 

 voyage down the hitherto unexplored Rio da 

 Duvida, which was ascertained to flow into 

 the Madeira. The difficulties of transporta- 

 tion were so great that comparatively few 

 specimens were collected by Mr. Cherrie on 

 this trip. Those which he did obtain, how- 

 ever, proved to be of exceptional interest. 



Mr. Miller made an important addition 

 to the collection at Calama, at the junction 

 of the Gy Parand and Madeira, and also at 

 Manaos, which he reached several weeks in 

 advance of Colonel Roosevelt's party. 



The Library has just received as a gift 

 from Mr. Anson W. Hard a number of rare 

 and valuable works. Die Infusionsthierchen 

 als vollkommene Organismen and Mikrogeologie 

 by D. C. G. Ehrenberg, who made the first 

 serious investigations of micro-organisms by 

 the aid of the microscope, are noteworthy 

 additions to the Library. Trees of Great Brit- 

 ain and Ireland by Henry John Elwes, pri- 

 vately printed in seven volumes with magnifi- 

 cent plates, will be appreciated by all tree 

 lovers and students of forestry. Of hardly 

 less note are Delectus animalium articulatorum 

 by Spix and Martins, Voyage pittoresque et his- 

 torique an Bresil by J. B. Debret and Voyage 

 to New Guinea and the Moluccas from Balam- 

 bangan by Thomas Forrest. 



At a recent meeting of the Board of 

 Trustees the constitution of the Museum was 

 amended so that the incorporators of the 

 institution should be designated as Founders 

 of the Museum, and was further amended to 

 create a class of members to be designated as 

 Associate Founders. All persons contribut- 

 ing $25,000 in cash, securities or property to 

 the funds of the Museum are eligible for 

 election to this class. 



The Academy of Natuial Science of Phila- 

 delphia has conferred the Hayden Memorial 

 Medal for the year 1914 upon Professor 

 Henry Fairfield Osborn in recognition of his 

 contributions to the science of vertebrate 

 palaeontology. 



Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has ar- 

 ranged to give to members of the American 



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