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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



of mythological tales. From the Northern 

 Paiute whom he visited for the first time as a 

 part of the department of anthropology's 

 reconnaissance of the plateau area, he ob- 

 tained a representative collection of basketry 

 and other objects representative of native 

 cultm-e. One of the most interesting speci- 

 mens is a boat or balsa, more than ten feet 

 in length and made entirely of rushes, for use 

 during the fall duck hunt. A brief visit was 

 paid to the Ute Indians of Utah for the pur- 

 pose of comparison with the southern Ute 

 of southwestern Colorado, who had been 

 visited some years ago. 



Since the last issue of the Journal the 

 following persons have become members of 

 the Museum: 



Patron, Mr. Robert Fulton Cutting; 



Life Members, Mrs. Sidney M. Colgate, 

 Dr. W. S. Rainsford, and Messrs. James 

 Barnes, Samuel J. Bloomingdale, S. 

 Bayard Colgate, Edward D. Harris, 

 Frederick C. Rowley and Henry Rowley; 



Annual Members, Mrs. John A. Morris, 

 Miss R. C. Boardman, Dr. Lee M. Hurd, 

 and Messrs. David A. Aronson, H. E. 

 Fenske, Fred W. Green, Robert W. 

 Martin, Clyde Milne, James Ulmann, 

 and Otto von Schrenk. 



Owing to a depletion of funds available for 

 publication of the Journal, the Museum has 

 considered it advisable to combine the 

 October and November numbers in the 

 present issue, to be followed by the Decem- 

 ber number as usual. 



A LETTER recently addressed by President 

 Heiu-y Fairfield Osbom of the American 

 Museum to the President of the Chinese 

 Republic urging that the Chinese Republic 

 preserve its antiquities and products of art, 

 was reprinted by order of the President of 

 the Chinese RepubUc in a large number 

 of the newspapers of China. This letter and 

 the memorial received from the Asiatic 

 Institute was followed by an edict protecting 

 aU monuments of China and finally by an 

 edict from the Chinese President setting aside 

 a large reservation and buildings in the city 

 of Pekin for the establishment of a national 

 historical and art museum. 



A preliminary report is now in press, of 

 the work of the Stefansson-Anderson ex- 

 pedition, which spent 1909-12 in ethnological 



and zoological research for the Museum along 

 the shores of Beaufort Sea and Coronation 

 Gulf in the Arctic. The report was in part 

 prepared by Mr. Stefansson before his de- 

 parture on the Canadian Arctic expedition 

 in the summer of 1913 and consists further 

 of extracts taken directly from his field 

 journals. It is made up of 376 pages, with 

 two maps and 94 figures in the text, and 

 will appear in the Anthropological Papers pub- 

 lished by the Museum. 



Dr. Bruno (Etteking, who has been 

 assisting in compiling the results of the Jesup 

 North Pacific expedition as regards physical 

 anthropology, has returned from Germany 

 where he has been spending the summer. 



The Museum has recently been honored 

 by a visit from Messrs. R. R. Marett and 

 Sydney Hartland, two eminent English 

 anthropologists who were returning from the 

 meetings of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science held in Australia 

 during the summer. 



Dr. Pliny E. Goddard spent August and 

 September in ethnological work among the 

 Apache Indians along the Gila and San Carlos 

 rivers in Arizona, and succeeded in securing 

 valuable motion picture films illustrating the 

 industries of the people. 



During the past summer Dr. Clark 

 Wissler, with the aid of Mr. .lames R. Murie, 

 an educated and influential member of the 

 Pawnee tribe of Indians, completed various 

 manuscripts descriptive of the societies of the 

 Pawnee. 



The Danish Arctic explorer, Mr. Knud 

 Rasmussen, who showed marked courtesy 

 to the members of the Crocker Land expedi- 

 tion during the past year, has recently had 

 $75,000 placed at his disposal for the purpose 

 of outfitting a North Pole expedition. The 

 expedition, which will take provisions for 

 two years, will be provided with all modem 

 appliances and will be accompanied by a 

 staff of scientists. The base will be at Cape 

 York, in Greenland. 



A letter has been received by the Museum 

 from Mr. D. B. Boggild, director of the 

 Mineralogical Museum of the University of 

 Copenhagen, expressing appreciation for the 

 assistance rendered by the members of the 

 Crocker Land party to Mr. Knud Rasmussen. 



