MUSEUM NOTES 



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to those affiliated with the Museum and to 

 the employees of similar institutions. 



The store was opened for business on 

 November 7. Its success has far exceeded 

 the expectations of the officers and it will soon 

 be incorporated under the laws of the State. 



Word was received from the Congo expedi- 

 tion November 6, that twenty-two cases of 

 zoological material had been shipped from 

 Stanleyville. It is expected that Mr. Chapin 

 will sail for home on the steamship ' ' Hawai- 

 ian" on November 18 and that Mr. Lang will 

 follow as soon as all arrangements for ship- 

 ment of the remaining collections can be made. 



Since the last issue of the Journal the fol- 

 lowing persons have become members of the 

 Museum: 



Life Members, Mrs. C. H. Isham and 

 Messrs. Chauncey M. Depew, Jr. and 

 William Dutcher; 



Annual Members, Mrs. Henry Hersey 

 Andrew, Mrs. G. A. Archer, Mrs. George 

 L. Carnegie, Mrs. Leopold Cohn, Mrs. 

 GoDDARD DuBois, Mrs. F. Lawrence 

 Embree, Mrs. Edward N. Gibbs, Mrs. 

 George Walton Green, Mrs. Charles L. 

 Livingston, Mrs. Herbert McBride, Mrs. 

 E. Howard O'Flyn, Mrs. Charles Lane 

 Poor, Mrs. John Rogers, Jr., Mrs. J. 

 Trowbridge Vredenburgh, Misses Milli- 

 cent F. Eady, M. D. Graham, Blanche 

 HiRSCH, Frances E. Martin, Louise Vel- 

 tin. Dr. G. K. Dickinson, Dr. Georg Orn- 

 stein, and Messrs. Benjamin Abert, 

 George Gordon Battle, A. H. Brawner, 

 G. H. Eiswald, Lewis A. Eldridge, Henry 

 Fletcher, Goelet Gallatin, Walter Fuld 

 Gips, Peter Gouled, G. S. Greene, Jr., 

 A. Augustus Healy, Frederick R. Hois- 

 iNGTON, Alfred J. Johnson, Louis Long, 

 William A. Moore, Aaron Naumburg, 

 William E. Reed, E. Quincy Smith, Ray- 

 mond W. Storm, Maurice S. H. Unger, 

 Elmore Curt Walther, Louis M. Weiller 

 and George L. Wheelock. 



In the New York City building at the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition, the gardens, 

 libraries and museums of New York will have 

 a booth some twenty-four feet long at the 

 left of the entrance, witli interior and exterior 

 wall space for the display of photographs. 

 Each institution of the city has been allotted 

 approximately ninety square feet of surface. 

 The Museum's representative on the com- 



mittee of arrangements is Dr. Chester A. 

 Reeds of the department of geology and in- 

 vertebrate palaeontology. 



The Museum has just received from 

 Messrs. M. Guggenheim and Sons the gift of a 

 small collection of prehistoric objects found 

 in a copper mine at Chuquicamata, Chile. 

 The collection consists for the most part of 

 hafted stone hammers and wooden scrapers. 

 These were the implements used by the 

 Indians in pre-Spanish days in collecting the 

 copper (atacamite) with which they made 

 knives and other implements. 



Rev. Gilbert L. Wilson, who for several 

 years has been working among the Hidatsa 

 Indians of North Dakota under the direction 

 of Dr. Clark Wissler, curator of the depart- 

 ment of anthropology, has this year been 

 devoting himself to the study of primitive 

 Indian agriculture. 



The value to the artist and art student of 

 the Museum's collections of objects from pre- 

 historic and present primitive peoples is 

 rapidly becoming known. There have always 

 been a few teachers who have understood the 

 richness and value of this field, and who have 

 occasionally sent their pupils here to copy 

 primitive designs and color schemes. The 

 number of students who have availed them- 

 selves of this privilege during the last two 

 years however reaches several thousand. 

 For the study of conventionahzed figures and 

 color schemes to be employed in carpet, 

 rug and wall paper manufactories or to fill 

 some of the many needs where designers are 

 required, there is certainly no better original 

 field than that presented in the ancient Peru- 

 vian textiles and pottery vessels as well as in 

 numerous objects in the American Indian 

 collections on display in the American 

 Museum. 



Through the courtesy of Dr. J. Leon Wil- 

 liams his private collection of casts of pre- 

 historic human remains from the Pleistocene 

 of Europe was placed on exhibition last 

 winter in the fossil mammal hall on the 

 fourth floor of the Museum, where it has 

 attracted much interest. This exhibit has 

 now been rearranged and greatly extended 

 in connection with the studies upon "Men of 

 the Old Stone Age" by Professor Henry Fair- 

 field Osborn. 



The new exhibit, opened to the public on 



