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with the Museum's exhibits and activities. 

 Sixty thousand folders have been printed 

 and placed in the hotels and steamboats and 

 a number of large framed posters have been 

 put in conspicuous places throughout the city. 



The department of public education of the 

 American Museum is sending photographs 

 and explanatory labels illustrating its work 

 among the blind in New York City, to the 

 Exhibition of the Arts and Industries of the 

 Blind held in connection with the Interna- 

 tional Conference on the Blind which occurs 

 in London from June 18 to 24. 



Mr. George C. Longley, a life member of 

 the Museum, has recently returned from five 

 months' archaeological study on the island of 

 Jamaica. Mr. Longley spent much of his 

 time while at the island in excavating the 

 kitchen middens of the Arawak, the pre- 

 historic inhabitants of Jamaica. He has add- 

 ed the results of his researches to the collec- 

 tion presented by him to the Museum in 1913. 

 The additions consist of two human skulls 

 found in a cave in the northeastern end of the 

 island, a stone idol, two perforated cylindrical 

 stones, usually called "chief's stones," more 

 than one hundred stone axes (called by the 

 natives "thunder balls"), and a large 

 number of pieces of broken pottery ves- 

 sels which show the manner of decorat- 

 ing by incised lines and dots. 



A replica of the famous bust of 

 Louis Pasteur by Dubois has been 

 presented to the Museum for instal- 

 lation in the hall of public health, 

 through the generosity of Dr. Roux, j v 

 Director of the Pasteur Institute in j 

 Paris and M. Vallery-Radot, son-in 

 law of M. Pasteur. 



A Tibet apron obtained by the 

 Younghusband expedition of 1903-4 from 

 the largest temple at Lhasa has been pre- 

 sented to the Museum by Mrs. John 

 Magee. This apron is made of the bon s of 

 saints or holy men and is looked upon as 

 very sacred. The carving on the bones is 

 unusually beautiful. Such aprons are 

 worn in order that the virtue possessed by 

 the bones may pass into the wearer and 

 he may thus acquire holiness. Few similar 

 examples have as yet found their way to 

 museums. This specimen was exhibited to 

 Museum members for the first time on the 

 evening of May 6 when Sir Francis Edward 



Younghusband lectured on 

 Entrance to Lhasa." 



Tibet and the 



Mr. James Barnes of the Barnes-Kearton 

 expedition, which crossed Central Africa 

 under the auspices of the American Museum, 

 has returned to New York bringing with him 

 a splendid series of motion-picture films. Mr. 

 Barnes will give an exhibition of these films 

 to the members of the Museum in the fall. 



Bust of Pasteur presented to the Museum 

 by Dr. Roux and M. Vallery-Radot 



