MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 159 
MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 
ARLY in April, President Osborn returned from a journey in 
Arizona, Mexico and California partly in the interests of the 
Museum. ‘I'wo of the great copper mines of Arizona and 
Mexico were visited, and with the aid of Dr. James Douglas, one of 
our ‘Trustees, questions relating to the future exhibition of the geology 
and economics of copper were studied. In California, arrangements 
were made with the Mt. Wilson Observatory through Director George 
Ellery Hale to secure for the Museum copies of the most recent solar 
photographs. Dr. Hale has also consented to take the chairmanship 
of an appointive committee on astronomy. <A visit to the palonto- 
logical collections of the University of California led to concluding im- 
portant arrangements for future collecting on the Pacific coast with the 
cordially promised coéperation of Prof. J. C. Merriam of the University. 
An interesting trip was made to the famous bone beds of the Rancho 
La Brea. 
THrouGH the generosity of Mr. Anson W. Hard, the Museum is 
fortunate in having secured an extensive series of old and valuable 
serapes and other blankets made by the Saltillo and other Indian tribes 
of Mexico and several of the tribes of our own Southwest. 
SINCE our last issue the following persons have been elected to mem- 
bership in the Museum: Sustaining Members, Messrs. JoHN G. MIL- 
BURN and D. SCHNAKENBERG; Annual Members, Messrs. Patt B. 
HaviLanp, Courin I. Macponatp, WINTHROP PARKER and WARBURTON 
Pike, Dr. ALEXANDER LAMBERT, Hon. Francis M. Scott, Mrs. J. B. 
Durer and Miss MABEL SATTERLEE. 
Mr. Frank M. CHapMAN writes that the party collecting material 
for the zonal group representing the fauna and flora of the east- 
ern edge of the Mexican plateau is in good health and is rapidly 
attaining its objects. Mr. Chapman and Mr. Fuertes have made their 
studies from near Cordova to a point above timber line on Mount 
Orizaba, and the former’s letter is, in part, as follows: 
