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W. Shoemaker, F. M. Smith, Howard van Sinderen, Frederick 

 C. Walcott, Horatio Walker and Wilfred J. Worcester; Mmes. 

 W. Rathbone Bacon, Oliver H. P. Belmont, M. M. van Beuren, 

 Samuel P. Blagden, Nathalie Bonner, P. H. Butler, Lilian Gil- 

 lette Cook, Clarence W. Dolan, Thomas Ewing, Jr., Ogden H. 

 Hammond, H. M. Harriman, J. C. Havemeyer, G. G. Haven, Richard 

 March Hoe, H. K. Knapp, Lewis Cass Ledyard, Paul Morton, B. 

 C. RiGGs, George M. Tuttle and Anna Woerishoffer, and Misses 

 Mary Benson, Margaret E. Gale, Alice E. Strong and Eweretta 

 C. Whitney. 



President Osborn has recently been elected one of the twenty-five 

 foreign members of the Zoological Society of London and an Honorary 

 Member of the Royal Academy of Sweden. 



Professor H. E. Crampton, Curator of Invertebrate Zoology 

 leaves New York early in May for an absence of eight months on an 

 expedition to the South Seas for the purpose of continuing his important 

 studies on the variation and distribution of terrestrial snails, a work 

 which he began in 1906 for this Museum and continued in 1907 and 

 1908 under a grant from the Carnegie Institution. Professor Crampton 

 will devote most of his time to the Society Islands, the Cook Islands, 

 the North Island of New Zealand, Samoa and Hawaii. 



A recent letter from Mr. William B. Richardson, collecting for the 

 Museum in Nicaragua, announces the shipment of a large collection of 

 birds and mammals made during the last six months at points ranging 

 in altitudes from 700 to 5,000 feet. Among the mammals are many 

 species not included in his previous shipments. 



Dr. Alexander Petrunkevitch, Honorary Curator of Arachnida, 

 will spend July and August collecting arachnida and other forms of 

 insect life in Texas, Mexico and Guatemala. 



Public meetings of the New York Academy of Sciences and its 

 Affiliated Societies will be held at the Museum as usual during May. 



The American fluseum Journal 



Enterfd as second-class matter January 12, 1907, at the Post-office at Boston, Mass 

 Act of Congress, July 16, 1894. 



