190 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
Mr. Roy W. Miner, Assistant Curator in the Department of Inverte- 
brate Zodlogy, spent the month of July at Woods Hole, Mass., making 
ecological studies and gathering material for Museum groups to illustrate 
typical associations of marine life, especially the fascinating fauna of wharf 
piles. During August, he studied rock tide-pools, first at Nahant, Mass., 
and later at South Harpswell, Maine. He was assisted in the work by I. 
Matausch and H. Miiller, preparateurs, S. Shimotori, artist, and Thomas 
Lunt, photographer. 
Dr. ALEXANDER PETRUNKEVITCH, Honorary Curator of Arachnida, 
has accepted a position in the Department of Zoédlogy at Yale and will 
assume his new duties at the beginning of the current university year. 
Mr. J. D. Fiaers, Chief of the Museum’s Department of Preparation, 
has gone to Denver to assume the Directorship of the Colorado Museum 
of Natural History. 
Just as the JouRNAL goes to press, a letter dated Cape Parry, Arctic 
Ocean, March 13, comes from Mr. V. Stefansson, and one written from 
Baillie Island from Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson. These letters give the 
adventures of the Museum’s Arctic Expedition and the results of work 
during the months from September 1, 1909 to March 6, 1910. Unusual 
difficulties have been experienced in the matter of getting a living from the 
frozen country. Sometimes the men have been without food for days or 
have been reduced to forcing down their throats what seems impossible food, 
such as rubbery, raw sealskin, or ptarmigan feathers and long-haired deer- 
skin soaked in clear seal oil. In fact, at one time starvation reduced them 
to use as food and sacrifice to the minimum the skins that served them for 
clothes and bedding. A full report with extracts from their letters will be 
given later. 
AFTER several months spent among the Crow Indians of Montana, Dr. 
Robert H. Lowie is at present at work among the Hidatsa of the Fort 
Berthold Reservation, North Dakota. 
Drs. GopDARD AND SPINDEN of the Department of Anthropology are 
attending the Congress of Americanists in Mexico City after which Dr. 
Spinden will again take up his work among the Rio Grande Pueblo of New 
Mexico. 
THe AMERICAN FISHERIES Society, which held its fortieth anniversary 
in New York City, September 27-29, met at the American Museum of 
Natural History September 28, at which time the members of the Society 
were the guests of the Museum at luncheon. 
