NEWS NOTES 257 



MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 



AT the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees, held on November 

 8, Dr. James Douglas was elected a member of the Board. Prince 

 Ludwig Salvator was elected a Life ]Member of the Museum on 

 account of the valuable gift of books noted in the last number of the 

 Journal; ]Mr. R. R. Cornell was made a Life ^Member on account of 

 important gifts of the heads of big game and Dr. Hugh M. Smith was 

 elected to Life ^Membership on account of many services rendered and 

 courtesies extended to the ^luseum. 



In addition to the gifts already reported in the Journal the following 

 important donations were announced at the Trustees' meeting : A collec- 

 tion of types of North American spiders, received from Dr. Thomas H. 

 ^Montgomery; one hundred books on angling, from Miss Grace H. 

 Dodge; an atlas of hand-painted plates of Brazilian flowers, from Mr. 

 Anson W. Hard ; two hundred volumes on microscopy, from Mr. William 

 G. DeWitt; a head-dress from Abyssinia, from Dr. U. S. Kahn. 



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

 ship in the Museum: Patrons, ^Iessrs. James Douglas and George J. 

 Gould; Life Members, Messrs. S. B. Chapin, R. R. Cornell, 

 William R. Craig, Thos. De Witt Cutler, Wm. T. Davis, Lewis 

 L. Delafield, a. F. Estabrook, Alessandro Fabbri, Childs Frick, 

 John Hubbard, M. R. Jacobus, Goodhue Livingston, James Mc- 

 Lean, Edward C. Moore, Jr., Victor Morawetz, Dudley Olcott, 

 2d, J. Sanford Saltus, Prinzen und Herrn Erzherzog Ludwig 

 Salvator, Edward Shearson, Francis Skinner, Byam K. Stevens, 

 Frederick Sturges, F. W. Vanderbilt and Henry R. Walcott, Dr. 

 Hugh M. Smith and IMmes. Emmons Blaine and Sidney Webster; 

 Sustaining ^Members, ^Messrs. H. D. Babcock, Edward S. Harkness, 

 Mortimer L. Schiff, Grant B. Schley and Delos O. Wickham and 

 Mrs. D. C. Blair; and Annual ^Members, ^Messrs. Joseph A. Blake, 

 Albert Calman, J. B. Francis Herreshoff, Gary T. Hutchinson, 

 Harry La Montague, James Laughlin, Jr., Charles L. Leonori, 

 Frank J. Logan, Philip ^L Lydig, J. M. McCarthy, Wm. McDonald 

 Charles Mac Donald, Marvin H. IMead, Henry H. Melville, 

 Truman H. Newberry, Dudley Olcott, Geo. Card Pease, Veryl 



