NEWS NOTES 227 



MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 



SINCE our last issue the following persons have been elected to 

 membership in the Museum: Annual ^Members, Messrs. 

 William H. Allex, Charles Collins, IVIaunsell S. Crosby, 

 Gust AVE F. Kolb, Gilbert Robert Livingston, Jr., Henry Mehl, 

 William Lincoln Parker, Henry ,M. Toch, Wm. Whitman, Jr., 

 and John Williams and Miss Annie Tweedie. 



The Library has recently received from His Royal Highness the 

 Illustrious Prince and Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria twenty 

 volumes descriptive of the natural history of some of the islands and 

 towns of the ^Mediterranean. These books were privately printed by 

 the Archduke of Austria and were published in a most sumptuous 

 manner. The works are as follows: Liparische Inseln, eight volumes, 

 L^stica, Columbretes, Alboran, Benzert, EggHgio, Bougie, Zante (two 

 volumes), Parga (two volumes), I^eokas and a splendid panoramic 

 view of Alexandrette. 



Mr. William G. De Witt, one of our Life Members, has just 

 presented to the Library his private collection of more than two hun- 

 dred volumes on microscopical subjects, which includes a complete set 

 of the Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society from the begin- 

 ning to the present time. 



The Department of Anthropology has recently purchased from 

 Professor Eugene Schroeder a collection from the South Sea Islands 

 containing, among other objects, garments, hair ornaments, chains, 

 fans, war clubs and an assortment of twenty-five shells from the Caro- 

 lines. 



The Department of Ornithology has received thirty-one King and 

 other penguins from the Antarctic, collected by Captain B. D. Cleveland. 

 The series includes specimens of both young and adults and represents 

 an entirely different kind of bird life from anything the ^Museum has 

 had before. 



