THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



Nearly all of these have now been reproduced, and are exhibited 

 in the Mexican Hall of the Museum with other examples of Mexi- 

 can pictography, including maps and mural paintings. In the 

 case with the Mexican codices are also placed reproductions of 

 the "Maya" or Central American codices showing the hiero- 

 glyphics of that region, which are also well represented on the 

 monuments in the same hall. f. w. p. 



NEWS NOTES. 



The Museum has received considerable valuable material 

 through the kind efforts of Professor Bashford Dean of Columbia 

 University, who returned last fall from a year's sojourn in Japan. 

 In addition to the Ainu material obtained by him and presented 

 by Mr. A. C. James, to which reference was made in the January 

 Journal, Professor Dean selected and purchased for the Mu- 

 seum a beautiful collection of siliceous sponges comprising thirty- 

 seven specimens which represent sixteen genera and about 

 twenty-six species. In the series there are several remarkably 

 fine examples of the "Venus flower basket." 



Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, Surgeon U. S. Army, to whom the 

 Museum is already indebted for many thousand specimens, has 

 recently donated to the Department of Conchology a large series 

 of specimens illustrating the littoral molluscan fauna of the 

 vicinity of Newport, Rhode Island. 



Through the generosity of Percy R. Pyne, Esq., the Museum 

 was enabled in March to purchase two unpublished paintings of 

 birds by John J. Audubon. The subjects of these paintings are 

 the Myrtle Warbler and the Red-Eyed Vireo. 



Much additional material from the A. J. Stone Expedition to 

 Alaska has been received recently, among which there are speci- 

 mens of what proves to be a fine new species of Caribou and a 

 new species or subspecies of Mountain Sheep. This expedition 

 is the first of a series made possible through the efforts of Madison 

 Grant, Esq., and supported by him and other friends of the 



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