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dogs and harness, bow drills for making fire and for boring, knives 

 and other tools, bows and arrows and guns of European manufacture 

 luit native repair, kyaks or boats, together with drags, floats, harpoons, 

 lances, spears and fishing lines. Some of this material together with a 

 great floor map showing routes has been placed on exhibition on the 

 ground floor of the new west wing. In the line of zoology, among other 

 things Mr. Peary has brought back to the Museum important series 

 of mammals, particularly musk oxen and caribou. The most valu- 

 able single specimens resulting from the Peary expeditions are the three 

 iron meteorites from Cape York which were brought from the Arctic 

 regions in 1897 and are now on exliibition in the Foyer. The largest 

 of these weighs 36^ tons and is known as "Almighito," the others are 

 "The Woman" (6,000 pounds) and "The Dog" (897 pounds). 



MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 



ON account of the part that the Museum is taking in the Hudson- 

 Fulton Celebration, the current number of the Journal is 

 devoted to the special Guide Leaflet which has been prepared 

 to accompany the exhibition pertaining to the Indians of ]\Ianhattan 

 Island and vicinity installed at the west end of the Hall of the Plains 

 Indians (No. 102 of the ground floor). This exliibition is permanent in 

 character and is further illustrated by the volume on the Indians of New 

 York State which has been prepared under Dr. Clark Wissler, Curator 

 of Anthropology, as editor and issued by the Museum in its series of 

 "Anthropological Papers." The Guide Leaflet in separate form may 

 be obtained at the entrance to the Museum or on application to the 

 librarian, and copies of the larger work may be obtained from the 

 librarian. 



The cetacean gallery on the third floor of the East Wing (Hall No. 

 306) was opened again to the public early in September, after being 

 closed for some months on account of changes which were in progress. 

 A broad frieze representing the ocean now extends around the room and 

 forms an appropriate background for the marine mammals which are its 

 chief exhibits. At the west end of the hall is a series of models repre- 

 senting a school of dolphins at play in the water, while at the east end of 



