138 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



the bottom of which horizontal bands of color represent Cretaceous and 

 the great subdivisions of Tertiary time, the space above the bands being 

 devoted to the installation of mounted specimens illustrating the princi- 

 pal subdivisions of mammals. Converging lines extend downward, 

 meeting in the band standing for the geological period in which the zoo- 

 logical group is known or supposed to have originated. Many difficulties 

 surround this effort at graphically representing a natural classification, 

 hence the present scheme can only be regarded as an experiment subject 

 to modification. 



At the May meeting of the Board of Trustees two classes of member- 

 ship were added to the Museum. Benefactors are persons contributing 

 or bequeathing $50,000 in cash or securities, and Sustaining ^Members 

 are those who contribute .$25 annually to the funds of the institution. 



Since our last issue the following persons have been elected to mem- 

 bership in the Museum: Patron, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie; Fellows, 

 Mrs. Henry O. Havemeyer, and Misses Caroline Phelps Stokes 

 and Olivia E. Phelps Stokes; Honorary Fellow, Baron Ludovic 

 Moncheur; Life Members, Doctors John Hendley Barnhart 

 and Carroll Dunham, Messrs. William G. De Witt, Daniel B. 

 Fearing, J. Horace Harding, Frederick Delano Hitch and Robert 

 S. Woodward and Mrs. Edward S. Harkness; Sustaining Members, 

 Mmes. Clarence H. Mackay and M. Orme Wilson; Annual Members, 

 Messrs. George J. Bascom, Nathan D. Bill, Clifford V, Brokaw, 

 Franklin Q. Brown, George S. Clapp, Clarence M. Clark, G. D. 

 Cochran, J. Clarence Davies, Daniel Edgar, John W. Edmonds, 

 L. C. Hanna, Geo. L. Ingraham, William H. Kelly, David Keppel, 

 LeRoy McKim, Edwin O. Meyer, Robert B. Meyer, A. Pagen- 

 stecher, Chas. W. Parsons, G. Ramsperger, J. G. Timolat, John 

 R. Totten, Elmer R. Vactor and W. A. White, Gen. Alexander 

 Shaler, Rev. J. L. Zabriskie, A. Alexander Smith, M. D., Mmes. 

 Joseph S. Auerbach, Eli Bernheim, Urban H. Broughton, Edwin 

 M. Bulkley, Daniel C. French, William E. Iselin, William M. 

 KiNGSLAND, Angeline J. Krech, S. Neustadt, Marion Story, 

 Robert E. Westcott, Richard H. Williams and Francis Dana 

 WiNSLOw and Misses Caroline Harriot, Irene Lewisohn, Faith 

 Moore, Marion Mott, Gladys F. Waterbury, L. Wheeler and 

 Dorothy P. Whitney. 



