NEWS NOTES 97 



The specimen is interestingly varied in color, the tubes ranging from 

 hyaline whites to soft sienna l)rowns. Gasse's description of Serpula 

 applies very well to these shells, "great and small heaps of contorted 

 tubes, that look as if a batch of tobacco pipes had become agglutinated 



VERMICULARIA' NIGRICANS DALL. (X2) 



Two small shells from the group figured on p. 96. 



together and strangely twisted in the baking." The shell begins' in a 

 close striated spine, the whorls of which relax as the tube is prolonged, 

 the later growth becoming continually more erect. The specimen is 

 from Clear Water Bay, Dunedin, Florida. 



L. P. G. 



MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 



SINCE the last issue of the Journal the following persons have 

 been elected members of the Museum: Life Members, Mr. 

 Charles Lyman Brinsmade and Mrs. John E. Parsons; 

 Annual Members, Messrs. Edward B. Amend, J. Sanford Barnes, 

 Jr., D. M. Barringer, S. R. Bertron, E. D. Bird, Horatio J. 

 Brewer, C. T. Church, Hubert Cillis, Everett Colby, Edward 

 Livingston Coster, Lawrence Godkin, George L. Harrison, Jr., 

 Hancke Hencken, Theodore Lyman, H. Fairfield Osborn, Jr., 

 H. F. Osborn Sanger, Ralph Sanger and G. W. Wilder; Mmes. 

 Hamilton Fish Kean, H. Fairfield Osborn, M. Grace Richardson, 

 Ralph Sanger and Edward Thomas; Misses Gertrude L. Hoyt, 

 Beatrix Jones, Kautz-Eulenburg and Josephine A. Osborn. 



The ^Museum has recently acquired through purchase from Mr. 

 G. R. Cassedy, of Cafion City, Colo., an iron meteorite that will form 

 a valuable addition to the series of meteorites in the Fover of the 



