262 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 
Tue following have been elected recently to membership in the Museum: 
Life Members, Messrs. BENJAMIN WaLwortH ARNOLD, Dickson Q. 
Brown, CHarLtes W. Harkness, D. P. Kinestey and T. B. PARKER, 
Captain JOHN J. PHELPS and COLONEL Ropert M. THompson; Sustaining 
Member, Mr. RatpH Wurts-Dunpas; and Annual Members, His Ex- 
CELLENCY Wiiu1aM H. Tart, Messrs. Wituiam A. ADRIANCE, MARSHAL 
CHANDLER Bacon, F. O. Brezner, L. F. Bratine, W. B. CoGSwELL, FRANK 
R. CorD.ey, JULIEN T. Davies, J. BENJAMIN Diunick, F. N. DouBLEepDay, 
H. C. Drayton, WiLtLiam SEYMouR Epwarps, THomas W. Farnam, 
WiwuaM T. Fioyp, J. R. Guappine, Henry J. S. Hay, Partie W. Henry, 
A. F. Houpen, L. E. Hotpen, Joun H. Isetin, Epwarp H. Kipper, Orro 
R. Korcuu, TowNSEND LAWRENCE, ARTHUR LEHMAN, ARTHUR LINCOLN, 
Lucius N. Lirraver, R. S. Lovett, ALFRED BisHorp Mason, STEPHEN O. 
Metcatr, RoBERT GrreER Monrog, J. SEAVER Pace, Epwarpb C. PERKINS, 
GeorGE E. Perkins, Lewis A. Pratt, Grorce E. Scoanck, ALFRED L. 
SELIGMAN, GEORGE St. JOHN SHEFFIELD, Louts Morris STarr, SAMUEL 
TuHorNE, Jr., THomas G. WASHBURN, ALEXANDER M. Wuite, Lucrus WIL- 
MERDING, ORME WILSON, JR., and JoHN YARD; Rev. Dr. GrorGE C. 
YeISLEY, Drs. CHares L. Dana and Joun E. Witson, GENERAL CHARLES 
F. Ror and Mmes. CHartes OT1s KIMBALL, JoHN Murray MITCHELL, 
and E. L. BREESE Norrie. 
Tue following members of the Board of Trustees contributed toward 
the expense of Teachers’ Day: Messrs. Cleveland H. Dodge, J. Pierpont 
Morgan, Adrien Iselin, Jr., Seth Low, J. Hampden Robb and Henry F. 
Osborn. 
At the Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Museum held 
on November 14 the following changes were made in the scientific staff: 
Dr. Louis Hussakof was appointed Associate Curator of Fossil Fishes; 
Mr. John T. Nichols, Assistant Curator of Recent Fishes; and Dr. William 
Kk. Gregory, Assistant in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology. 
THREE members of the Scientific Staff, Dr. J. A. Allen, Curator of the 
Department of Mammalogy, Mr. Frank M. Chapman, Curator and Mr. W. 
DeW. Miller, Assistant in the Department of Ornithology, attended the 
28th annual meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union in Washington, 
November 15-17. Dr. Allen was the first President of the Union, serving 
for seven years (1883-1891); Mr. Chapman is now first Vice-President. 
