258 THE AMEHICAX MUSEUM JOURXAL 



Preston, John T. Pratt, Edmund P. Rogp:rs, Alexander Rubel, 

 George S. Runk, Henry A. Rusch, William Salomons, T. P. Shonts, 

 H. B. Smithers, Gp:o. S. Terry, S. Breck P. Trowbridge, Frank 

 Vincent, Geo. D. Widener, P. A. B. Widener, William Williams 

 and John ]M. Woolsey, Doctors Clemens Fulda, Ulysses S. Kahn 

 and E. H. Raymond, Major General I). E. Sickles, U. S. A., Gen. 

 Samuel C. Lawrence, Mmes. James Lent Barclay, C. Ledyard 

 Blair, David H. Greer, Charles ^NIcBirney and Joseph Walker, 

 Jr., and Misses Caroline Coventry Haynes and Fanny P. Mason. 



The annual autumn exhil)ition of the Horticultural Society of Xew 

 York was held at the Museiun from the evening of November 3 to 7 

 inclusive and was attended by 30,734 visitors. The exhibit was broader 

 in scope than that of last year and was more effectively displayed, being 

 installed in the foyer and the adjacent halls. 



During the past summer. Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey of the Depart- 

 ment of Geology visited some of the iron and copper mines of the Upper 

 Peninsula of Michigan and secured valuable and interesting specimens 

 for our collections illustrating economic geology. Through the kindness 

 of the Oliver Mining Company, its noted hematite mines at Ishpeming 

 were studied in detail and characteristic specimens secured. Through the 

 courtesy of Dr. Alexander Agassiz, Presi<lent of the Calumet and Hecla 

 Mining Company, a complete series of specimens was collected illus- 

 trating the occurrence of native copper in the celebrated mines of that 

 company at Calumet. Through the courtesy of Mr. F. W. Denton, the 

 mines at Painsdale were visited and characteristic specimens were se- 

 cured. 



Dr. Louis Hussakof, Assistant Curator of Fossil Fishes, recently 

 returned from a five months' trip to Europe. He spent most of his time 

 studying the collections of living and fossil fishes in the leading museums; 

 among others, the Royal Scottish Museum, the British Museum, the 

 Musee d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris and the -Berlin Museum. Con- 

 siderable attention was given to the methods employed in the exhibition 

 and installation of specimens. The last two weeks of the trip were spent 

 in studying and collecting living fishes at the Stazione Zoologica, Naples. 

 Many valuable scientific data were obtained for future publication. 



