MUSEUM NEWS NOTES 263 
Mr. Barnum Brown of the Department of Vertebrate Palsontology 
has recently returned from an expedition to Montana which completes the 
work on the Laramie formation begun in 1902 and carried on continuously 
since that time except during the year 1907. The most important specimen 
obtained was an unusually complete skeleton of Trachodon. As a result of 
the work in Montana the Museum will be able to restore and mount all of 
the chief representatives of dinosaur life during the Laramie Cretaceous 
period which marked the close of dinosaur life in the United States. 
Tue NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIETIES met at the Museum 
October 25. Besides other business a resolution was passed expressing to 
Mrs. Dutcher the gloom cast upon the meeting by the illness of William 
Dutcher, the Association’s President. The lecture in the evening was 
‘given by Professor John B. Watson of Johns Hopkins University on the 
“Facilities for the Study of Animal Behavior on the Dry Tortugas Bird 
Reservation.” 
Mr. W. DEW. MILLER acted recently as expert ornithologist to pass 
on the legality of sale of about one hundred species of birds submitted by 
milliners of the State. Mr. Miller identified the skins and reported that 
under the ruling of the Shea bill passed by the last Legislature, forty-three 
among them could not be used on women’s hats. Among these were 
Bohemian waxwing, snow bunting, swift, magpie, sooty and white terns, 
green heron and white heron, screech owl, condor, jay and skylark. 
THe Museum Liprary lacks for its files volumes II to VIII inclusive 
of the JournaL. The librarian would be grateful if Members who have 
any of these numbers and do not care to keep them would send them 
to the Museum. 
LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS 
MEMBER’S COURSE 
The following illustrated lectures of the course remain to be given to Members of the 
Museum and persons holding complimentary tickets given them by Members. 
Thursday evenings at 8:15 o’clock. Doors open at 7:45. 
December 1— Mr. FrRanK M. CHapman, “From Sea-level to Snow-line 
in Vera Cruz, Mexico.” 
December 8— Mr. James L. Ciark, “Snap Shots from British East 
Africa.” 
December 15 — Dr. Piryy E. Gopparp, “ Nomadics of the Southwest.” 
December 22 — Mr. Roy C. ANpDREWws. Subject to be announced. 
