MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 115 
THe Museum has received and added to its permanent endowment 
fund the sum of one hundred thousand dollars which was bequeathed 
to it by the late Mr. Darius O. Miils. 
Since our last issue the following persons have been elected to mem- 
bership in the Museum: Patron, Hon. Greorce W. WIcKERSHAM; 
Life Member, Mr. Frepertck A. Lucas; Sustaining Members, MEssrs. 
Fritz AcHELIS and Atrrep E. Mariina; Annual Members, Messrs. 
M. W. AmBerc, CHARLES EBERHART, B. Tarren FaircuHi.p, H. C. 
FLEITMANN, JAMES GuTMANN, E. G. Love, BRapLEY Martin, JR., 
Howarp Norman, FRANKLIN SIMON and AuGUST ZINSSER, JR., REV. 
Percy STICKNEY GRANT, Dr. E. Lyevti Earie, MmMes. CADWALADER 
Jones and Henry D. Wutrrirtp and Misses LEeéntE M. Gatior 
STAMM and CATHERINE A. STEVENS. 
Mr. Frepertick A. Lucas, Curator in Chief of the Brooklyn Museum, 
has been elected a life member of the American Museum on account of 
the practical assistance which he has rendered the latter institution 
and because of his contributions to science. 
THE magnificent elephant head which was collected by Mr. Richard 
Tjader in German East Africa in 1906 and which has been on exhibition 
at the Museum for the past two vears as a loan from Mr. Samuei Thorne 
has been transferred to the Heads and Horns collection at the Zodlogical 
Park in Bronx Park. 
ADVICEs received late in February from Mr. Roy C. Andrews, who 
has been cruising for the past six months on the steamer Albatross 
of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, gave an account of an interest- 
ing and profitable journey among the Philippine Islands, the Moluccas, 
the Celebes and along the coast of Borneo. Many valuable photographs 
of natives have been obtained, including moving picture fiims of dancing 
“Dyaks” at Amboyna, Moluccas. Ethnological material, too, was ob- 
tained from several islands, part of which was generously presented 
by His Excellency, Baron Quaries de Quarles, Governor of the Celebes. 
News from Messrs. Lang and Chapin, of the Museum’s Congo ex- 
pedition, has come in the form of ietters and post cards which were ten 
weeks or more on their journey from the heart of Africa. Mr. Lang’s 
