NEWS NOTES 27 
Mr. Charles H. Sternberg and is considered the second finest example 
ever discovered. 
‘THrouGH the bequest of Miss Phebe Anna Thorne, the Museum is 
to receive ten thousand dollars for its permanent endowment. The 
income of the fund is to be used in such a manner as to perpetuate the 
memory of her father. 
THE path of Halley’s comet has been added to the planetarium in the 
Foyer, and the position of this transient visitor to the solar system will 
be indicated daily during the next few months, while the comet is visible 
to the unaided eye. 
THE Department of Anthropology has recently been enriched by the 
accession of two large local collections. The first of these was made 
on Manhattan Island by Messrs. Calver and Bolton. It is particularly 
valuable, because the sites on the upper end of the Island, whence the 
objects were obtained, are fast becoming obliterated. Several skeletons 
are particularly interesting as being the only authentic remains of the 
Manhattan aborigines known. ‘There is also a large and perfect pottery 
vessel of the Iroquoian type from the upper end of Manhattan Island. 
This collection was described and many of the objects figured by Mr. 
Bolton in Volume III of the * Anthropological Papers” and in the Hud- 
son-Fulton number of the JouRNAL for October, 1909. The second 
collection was made on Staten Island during the years 1900-1909 by 
Mr. Alanson Skinner of the Department of Anthropology and is the 
largest and most complete in existence from this locality, consisting of 
nearly 1200 specimens. ‘The collection is described and figured by Mr. 
Skinner in Volume III of the “ Anthropological Papers,” and in the 
JOURNAL for October, 1909. Figures 9, 10, 11 and 12 illustrate speci- 
mens largely drawn from this collection. 
SINCE our last issue the following persons have been elected to 
membership in the Museum: Sustaining Members, Messrs. Ernest C. 
Buss, TEMPLE Bowporn, Wn. H. FiscHer, GEORGE CoE GRAVES, 
Watrer C. Hupsarp, ALBERT Tac, F. D. UNDERWOOD and EGERTON 
L. WrxtHrop; Annual Members, Messrs. FrRED’k GIRARD AGENS, 
G. L. Botssevarn, A. H. Caspary, F. R. Hazarp, WALKER D. HInEs, 
Minor C. KeitH, Morris Kinney, ANrHony R. Kusrer, GrorGE A. 
