MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 221 
shall extend the work beyond its own doors, sending out to the blind 
study collections well labeled in both New York Point and American 
Braille, following here the plan of small travelling museums employed in 
codperation with the city schools where 900,000 children were reached 
during the past year. 
AN expedition under Mr. Walter Granger of the Department of Verte- 
brate Palseontology in searching for fossil remains in the Big Horn Valley, 
Wyoming, has discovered in the Lower Eocene a complete skeleton of the 
ancestral horse, a small four-toed species. The skeleton has been taken up 
in a block of sandstone, and after the block arrives at the Museum, chip- 
ping the rock away from about the bones will proceed at once. The 
great fact is that this skeleton was found in the Lower Eocene, being the 
first record for this formation, which is older than any that has before yielded 
a complete horse skeleton. The specimen must, therefore, carry evolu- 
tionary history farther into the past than skeletons previously obtained, and 
when fully exposed, is likely to be found approximating more nearly a 
hypothetical five-toed ancestor of all horses. 
A Teacuers’ Day has been planned by the Museum authorities. Dele- 
gates from all the schools have been invited to be present on Saturday, 
November 5, from two to five-thirty o’clock. Special guides will be on 
hand to conduct the teachers through the exhibition halls and especially 
through the laboratories and workrooms which are not open to the public. 
The program includes ten-minute illustrated talks by the Curators of the 
Museum and a general meeting at which brief addresses will be made by 
Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the Board of Trustees, 
Dr. William H. Maxwell, Superintendent of the Public Schools, and other 
educators. A reception will follow these addresses. 
THe HorticuLturaL Society or NEw York will hold its fall exhibition 
in the Museum from November 9 to 13. The exhibition will be open 
especially for the members of the Society and for Museum and affiliated 
organizations on Wednesday evening from 7 to 10 o’clock. It will be open 
to the general public on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9 a. M. to 
5 p. M. and from 7 to 10 Pp. M., also on Sunday from 1 to 5 Pp. M. 
Miss Mary Lots Kisseuu of the Department of Anthropology left New 
York October 28 for an extended period of field observation among some 
of the Indian tribes of the Southwest. Miss Kissell will devote her time to 
a study of the basket work and textiles of these tribes paying especial atten- 
tion to the origin and significance of designs. 
