1SS THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
PRESIDENT OszorN left August 5 for a journey in the West, returning 
to the Museum September 19. He visited the Big Horn Basin of Northern 
Wyoming, where a field party under Mr. Walter Granger is carrying on 
explorations for the earliest known ancestors of the horse and of other 
mammals in America, the especial object of the work being to secure the 
complete history of the life of this section of the country in lower Eocene 
times. President Osborn also visited the new Glacial National Park of 
Northern Montana, which since the last session of Congress has been added 
to the system of National Parks. This park is a superb region, embracing 
the wildest and finest mountain scenery in the United States. It contains 
no less than sixty glaciers and includes the summit of the Rocky Mountain 
System, lying about forty miles immediately south of the Canadian bound- 
ary. 
Berore his departure for the West, President Osborn sent to the press 
his volume on the “Age of Mammals.”’ This book is to be published by 
the Macmillan Company in October and will be the first popular summary 
of the results of the paleontological explorations of the Museum during the 
past twenty vears. It is illustrated largely from the Hall of Fossil Mammals 
and from photographs collected by the Museum’s field expeditions. 
Dr. James DovuGtas is having prepared for the Museum at his expense, 
a large model of the Copper Queen Mines, the property of the Copper 
Queen Mining Company, Bixby, Arizona. This model, showing the con- 
struction of tunnels and the various processes of extracting and treating 
the ore, is the first step in Museum representation of the industrial side 
of geology. Dr. E. O. Hovey has charge of the field studies preparatory 
to the construction of the model. He left for Arizona early in August, 
accompanied by Messrs. A. Breismeister, William Peters and Thomas 
Lunt. They will return to the Museum about the first of October. 
Dr. CHARLES H. TowNseENp of the New York Aquarium is serving the 
Museum as Acting Director during a six-months’ leave of absence of Direc- 
tor Hermon C. Bumpus. 
Proressor Henry FatrFIELD OsBorN has been appointed Honorary 
Curator of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology and Dr. W. D. 
Matthew has been promoted to the position of Acting Curator. 
Dr. C. H. Townsend has recently presented to the Museum fourteen 
specimens of Hawaiian Island birds from the collection of the late Edward 
Hitchcock of Hilo. Not one of the eight species represented was previously 
contained in the Museum’s collection of birds, which is deplorably deficient 
in Hawaiian mater‘al. 
