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natives. The wonder is that there is a good one left. One that we shot in Uganda 
carried tusks of seventy to eighty pounds weight, but owing to the huge bulk of the 
animal, they appeared small. This elephant was of size sufficient to carry two- 
hundred-pound tusks gracefully. 
Mr. Akeley tells of an interesting discovery he made at Mount Kenia 
owing to his habit, offensive to his followers, as he says, of “pounding”’ 
across country by compass regardless of well-known trails. He found the 
shelter where a baby elephant had been born and was spending the early 
days if its existence while the mother fed about in the neighborhood. It 
was on the extreme point of a ridge, well off the elephant trails and feeding 
grounds. He was first attracted to the spot by the remarkable appearance 
of a tree which, hung with an enormous mass of aerial roots, made a canopy 
for the shelter. 
MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 
AmonG the recent gifts to the Museum are the Lender’s collection of 
costumes of the Plains Indians, presented by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan; 
a valuable collection of Navajo blankets presented by Mrs. Russell Sage; 
and two specimens of the African elephant as well as two of the square- 
mouthed or white rhinoceros, collected and presented by the Honorable 
Theodore Roosevelt. 
A memorial tablet to the late Jonathan Thorne has been placed in the 
Museum’s room for the blind, recently endowed by the bequest of his 
daughter, the late Phebe Anna Thorne. The tablet is a bronze bas-relief 
of Mr. Thorne and was designed and executed by Chester Beach of New 
York. 
SINCE our last issue the following persons have been elected to member- 
ship in the Museum: Patrons, Messrs. OcpEN Mitts and Fenix M. 
WarsBurG, Her SERENE HIGHNEss, Princess Vi~tMA Lworr-PaARLAGHY 
and Mmes. Russe_t SAGE and JoHNn B. Trevor; Life Members, Messrs. 
F. Lorurop Ames, C. Forster Cooper and Stanton D. KirkKHAmM and 
Miss EvizABETH BILLINGS; Sustaining Members, Mr. CHARLES DE RHAM 
and Mrs. C. M. Pratr; Annual Members, Messrs. J. ApAMS Brown, 
CLARENCE L. Fasré, Emit FRENKEL, WILLIAM HaGur, Row.Lanp G. 
Hazarp, JAMES Henry, Louris A. HILDEBRAND, STANLEY D. McGraw, 
S. K. Reep and GrorGce M. THornton and Megs. CHar.es A. Post, J. 
CLIFFORD RICHARDSON and CHARLES B. ROWLAND. 
