THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



The ethnological material collected by Mr. A. J. Stone on his 

 first expedition to Alaska has been acquired by the Museum. 

 The objects were obtained, for the most part, along the Macken- 

 zie river and the Arctic coast and represent the early culture 

 of tribes which have been greatly affected in late years by 

 French missionaries. 



Mr. Waldemar Bogoras has returned from his travels in 

 Siberia, in connection with the Jesup North Pacific expedition, 

 notices of which have appeared in the Journal from time to 

 time, and has begun the study of the large amount of material 

 which he has collected and sent to the Museum. 



George Foster Peabody, Esq., has furnished the Museum 

 with funds for the purchase of the Steiner collection of archaeo- 

 logical implements from Georgia, which forms a desirable addi- 

 tion to the Museum series representative of North American 

 archaeology. 



B. Talbott B. Hyde, Esq., has purchased the Andrew E. 

 Douglass library, which has long been at the Museum with the 

 Douglass collection, and which contains many rare treasures of 

 archaeological literature, and has made it available for use in 

 connection with the Hyde exploring expedition. 



Miss M. W. Bruce has presented the Department of Miner- 

 alogy with a large and showy group of calcite crystals from 

 Joplin, Missouri. The chief feature of the group is a large com- 

 posite scalenohedron, the top of which is capped by a single 

 turban-shaped crystal. 



Early in April Professor R. P. Whitfield returned from his 

 vacation, which he spent visiting southern California, 



Mr. George H. Sherwood, the Assistant Curator of the 

 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, has gone to Woods Hole 

 to continue the experiments on the artificial propagation of the 

 lobster which have been under way for some years by the United 

 States Fish Commission. 



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