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furnishing goods show some sign of the color combinations and of the 

 fish, l)ird and cat patterns peciihar to Peruvian mummy cloth. Reports 

 of such instances of direct influence on the art and industries of the 

 -country might be multiplied indefinitely, sometimes the need entailing 

 information about precious corals, or some tree advisable for planting 

 in a commercial venture, or sometimes having to do with materials for 

 an artist's sketch of a Sioux maiden, design of grotesque fish or quaint 

 and unusual models for pottery and glass. 



MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 



THE ]Museum is fortunate in having secured the John William 

 Waters collection of ethnological objects from Fiji. The 

 collection comprises about 1800 specimens, including house- 

 hold utensils and implements of war and the chase, made of stone, 

 turtle shell and wood. ]\Ir. Waters lived for forty years on the island, 

 and his knowledge of the people and their customs enabled him to bring 

 together this remarkable collection, the value of which is enhanced by 

 the fact that it represents the life of the Fijians before they had become 

 ■acquainted with iron and its uses. 



The following members have been elected since the last issue of the 

 Journal: Life ^Members, Messrs. Hugh Hh.l, J. S. Morgan, Jr., and 

 Henry S. Morgan, ^Misses Jane N. Morgan and F. T. Morgan and 

 Mmes. J. PiERPONT Morgan, Jr., and Davies Coxe; Annual Mem- 

 bers, Messrs. A. Perry Osborn, A. F. Troescher, A. G. Vetter, 

 P. S. Trainor, Jacob Olesheimer, Wm. Edmond Curtis, James 

 \Y. Greene, R. J. Schaefer, George E. Chatillon, E. C. Klipstein, 

 B. G. ]\Ieyer, a. C. Bechstein, Washington L. Cooper, Frederick 

 A. LiBBEY, Charles H. Weigle, C. B. Isham, Edward H. Floyd- 

 Jones, Jesse Lantz and Alanson P. Lathrop, Dr. Charles K. 

 Briddon, General Horace Porter, ]Misses Louise D. van Beuren 

 and E. jVIabel Clark and Mrs. James A. Rumrill. 



Dr. Frank E. Lutz has been appointed an assistant curator in the 

 INIuseum. Dr. I^utz has been an investigator in the Carnegie Listitu- 

 tion at Cold Spring Harbor and has published a score or more of 

 papers on the general subjects of Liheritance and Variation. 



