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The model of the Copper Queen Mine 

 (the full description of which by Dr. E. O. 

 Hovey has been necessarily deferred until 

 the next issue of the Journal) is supple- 

 mented by a collection of specimens illustrat- 

 ing the mineralogy of the region about 

 Bisbee, Arizona, another series illustrating 

 the commercial ores of the mines, sets of rock 

 specimens giving the economic and general 

 geology of Bisbee, still other samples showing 

 the smelter treatment of the ores at Douglas, 

 accompanied by photographs of mines, sur- 

 rounding country and the smelter. Some of 

 the specimens deserve special mention, partic- 

 ularly the group of velvet malachites whose 

 surface is composed of dehcate needle-like 

 crystals. A geode-like mass of smooth botry- 

 oidal malachite attracts much attention. 

 The great prism of ore, about three feet 

 square by five feet high and weighing about 

 three and one-half tons, occupying a special 

 case, was raised through the Czar shaft of the 

 Copper Queen Mines and exhibited first at the 

 Columbian Exposition, Chicago, in 1893. It 

 contains more than a ton of pure copper be- 

 sides some silver and gold. 



The New York Academy of Sciences with 

 the cooperation of the American Museum, 

 the New York Botanical Garden, the scien- 

 tific departments of Columbia University, 

 New York University and other institutions, 

 has begun a scientific study of the island of 

 Porto Rico along the lines of geology, palte- 

 ontology, zoology, botany, anthropology and 

 oceanography. With the assistance of a 

 friend the Academy has voted to expend 

 $1500 a year for five years on this work and 

 the insular government of Porto Rico has 

 made an appropriation of $5000 for the 

 fiscal year beginning July 1, 1914, with the 

 expectation that this appropriation would be 

 repeated on each of the ensuing four years. 

 The committee having the work in charge 

 consists of Professors N. L. Britton, James 

 F. Kemp, Franz Boas, C. L. Poor and H. E. 

 Crampton. Mr. Roy W. Miner of the Mu- 

 seum's department of invertebrate zoology 

 and Mr. John T. Nichols of the Museum's 

 department of ichthyology and herpetology 

 will be among those who will carry on in- 

 vestigations in Porto Rico this summer. 



On June 4 Mr. Paul J. Rainey, who has 

 recently returned from a two years' residence 

 jn British East Africa, gave to the members 



of the Museum the first exhibition of his 

 latest motion pictures of African wild-animal 

 life. Because of the popularity of the lecture 

 the auditorium was not only filled at eight 

 o'clock but there was also a large overflow of 

 members waiting for admission. In order not 

 to disappoint these, Mr. Rainey kindly con- 

 sented to repeat his lecture later in the even- 

 ing when more than eleven hundred were in 

 attendance. To insure the preservation of 

 the films as scientific records, Mr. Rainey has 

 presented a set to the Museum. 



In the May number of Petermann's 

 Mitteilungen, appears the first chart to be 

 published of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia 

 Island. The map and accompanying article 

 are by Mr. Robert Cushman Murphy and 

 represent a phase of the scientific work of the 

 expedition to the Subantarctic Atlantic,, 

 conducted during 1912-13 by the American 

 Museum of Natural History in conjunction 

 with the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and 

 Sciences. The chart is of further interest to 

 friends of either institution because one of the 

 great valley glaciers in the Bay of Isles has, 

 been named "Lucas Glacier" in honor of the 

 Director of the American Museum and 

 another glacier is labeled "Morris Glacier"" 

 for the late curator of natural science in the 

 Brooklyn Museum. A third is called " Grace 

 Glacier" for the cartographer's wife and the. 

 fourth and largest "Brunonia Glacier" for 

 Brown University. "Point Bellinghausen " 

 commemorating the Russian circumnavigator 

 who made the survey of South Georgia in the 

 year 1820, "Beckman Fiord," named for the 

 Norwegian whaleman, and "Cape Woodrow 

 Wilson" are among other localities which 

 have been added to the map of the island. 



The Bay of Isles was discovered in 1775 by 

 Captain James Cook. For more than a 

 hundred years it has been a harbor of much 

 importance to sealers and sea elephant 

 hunters at South Georgia. Recently it has 

 been visited by whalers and by the Swedish 

 Antarctic expedition but no survey of its 

 exten.sive fiords and numerous islets had been 

 published until the present chart appeared. 



The department of geology and inverte- 

 brate palaeontology will cooperate with the 

 Oklahoma Geological Survey in sending a, 

 field party into the Arbuckle Mountains, 

 Oklahoma, during July and August. Dr. 

 Chester A. Reeds of the Museum will be in 

 charge of the party. 



