THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



The Department of Entomology has received from the Verv 

 Reverend E. A. Hoffman about six hundred and fifty specimens 

 of butterflies from Australia, British New Guinea and other parts 

 of the globe. All the forms are new to the collection, and there 

 are many rare and beautiful species among them. Including 

 this gift, the department received more than nine hundred speci- 

 mens from this generous friend of the Museum during the year 

 1901. 



The Department of Geology has placed on exhibition on the 

 tops of some of the cases containing the Jesup Collection of 

 Building Stones on the ground floor of the Museum a series of 

 specimens illustrating the building stones of Georgia. These 

 specimens are in the form of handsome eight-inch cubes, with 

 one face polished and the others finished in different styles to 

 show the appearance of the material when treated according to 

 several methods of the stone-dresser's art. The series com- 

 prises thirty-eight of these cubes, and includes gray, homo- 

 geneous granite of several shades, porphyritic granite and gneiss, 

 sandstone, limestone and mottled and white marble. The collec- 

 tion was made for the State of Georgia by the State Geologist, 

 Dr. W. S. Yeates, and has been exhibited at the expositions held 

 at Atlanta, Nashville and Buffalo. It has been deposited in the 

 Museum by the Geological Board of Georgia as an exhibit of the 

 resources of the State in regard to building stones. 



Three important parts of the Memoirs of the Museum were 

 issued in January as results of the explorations carried on by the 

 Jesup North Pacific Expedition. They are, "The Traditions of 

 the Quinault Indians," by Dr. Livingston Farrand, assisted by 

 W. S. Kahnweiler, forming Part III of Vol. IV of the whole series 

 of Memoirs; " Kwakiutl Texts," by Professor Franz Boas and 

 George Hunt, forming Part I of Vol V; and " The Decorative Art 

 of the Amur Tribes," by Dr. Berthold Laufer, forming Part I of 

 Vol. VII. The Quinault Indians live on the coast of the State of 

 Washington, while the Kwakiutl tribe lives in British Columbia. 

 In the ]\Iemoir, the Kwakiutl texts and the English translations 

 thereof are arranged in parallel columns. Dr. Laufer' s paper is 



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