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appointed Assistant Curator and Mr. Aianson Skinner has been added 
to the list as Assistant; a new Department of Public Heaith has been 
established with Prof. C. E. A. Winsiow as Curator; a new Department 
of Woods and Forestry has been estabiished, with Miss Mary C. Dicker- 
son in charge. 
Announcement was made at the meeting that Mrs. Morris Kk. Jesup 
had added to her previous benefactions the gift of a large coliection of 
ethnological material from the Philippine Islands, vaiued at $6000, and 
the contribution of $10,958.33, being the sum required for the third pay- 
ment on the Cape York (Peary) meteorites, which are a gift from her 
to the Museum. 
Announcement was likewise made of a gift by Mrs. John B. ‘Trevor 
of $5000 to the Permanent Endowment Fund which is to be added to 
the John B. Trevor Fund; of gifts from Mr. Archer M. Huntington of 
$5000 for anthropological work in the Southwest and $5,000 toward a 
fund for Antarctic exploration; and of the gift from Mr. Arthur Curtiss 
James of $5000 toward the Antarctic exploration fund. 

MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 
INCE our last issue the foliowing persons have been elected to 
membership in the Museum: Patrons, Mr. ‘THos. Dre Wirr 
CuyLER AND Hon. GrorGe W. WickERSHAM; Life Members, 
Messrs. A. RADCLYFFE DucGMore, THEODORE R. Hoyt, FreprErtic H. 
KENNARD, ALFRED H. MuLuikren, NaTHANIEL: CusHine Nasu, DE 
Lancey Nicoiu, R. A. C. SmirH and ALFRED RutTcers WHITNEY, JR.; 
Sustaining Member, Mr. J. B. Greennur; Annual Members, Messrs. 
F. B. Apams, W. L. ANDREWws, MisHa E. APPELBAUM, ALEXANDER 
Arsis, G. W. E. Atkins, WM. CHILDs, JR., SAMUEL W. Enrico, WM. 
H. Farrington, L. P. Feustman, Haroup H. Frits, Epwin GoutLp, 
Jr., JOHN ARTHUR GREENE, Louis M. GREER, EDWarpD GRIFFITH, 
E. Morcan GRINNELL, O. J. Gupr, HENRY WILLIAM GUERNSEY, 
R. A. GusHer, A. FintMorE Hype and JAMEs NesmirH and Misses 
M. Taper and FrorENCE WATERBURY. 
Dr. Hermon C. Bumrpus, Director of the Museum, sailed from New 
York on February 17 on a tour to Yucatan, Mexico and the southwestern 
States. In Yucatan, Dr. Bumpus will visit the famous Mayan ruins of 
