12 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
Among the delegates to the Congress who have visited the Mu- 
seum since September may be mentioned Sir William Ramsay, 
Sir John Murray, Dr. H. R. Mill, Major A. St. H. Gibbons and 
Professor Oldham of England and Scotland; Professors Cordier, 
Grandidier and Thoulet of France; the Graf von Pfeil and Pro- 
fessors Hugo Erdmann and Verworn of Germany; Professors 
Albrecht Penck and Eugen Oberhummer of Austria; Dr. Bela 
Erédi of Hungary; M. de Claparéde of Switzerland; Professor 
Sraute Arrhenius of Sweden; Commissioner Maldanago of Chili; 
Dr: Garland of Peru; Colonel Pefia of Mexico; Dr. Arpiazupor 
Spain, and Professor Kakichi Mitsukuri of Tokyo. 
ON the evening of September 13, there was given a joint lec- 
ture by Dr. William Hunter Workman and Mrs. Fanny Bullock 
Workman on “ Explorations among the Himalayas,’ under the 
auspices of the American Geographical Society and the Museum. 
The lecture was complimentary to the International Geographic 
Congress then in session. 
OcToBER 3 Professor Hugo de Vries, the emirient Dutch 
botanist, was the guest of the Museum. 
THE most important accession to the Library during the year 
has been the gift of the private scientific library of Professor 
H. C. Bumpus, amounting to more than three hundred volumes 
and twenty-seven hundred pamphlets. This collection 1s espe- 
cially rich in works in comparative anatomy and brings to the 
Library many valuable works and rare reprints not heretofore 
owned by the Museum. 
Tue Department of Geology has recently received a remark- 
able series of fossils from the beds of Hudson River age near 
Cincinnati, Ohio. All the specimens are in beautiful condition 
and many rare forms, especially of Echinoderms, are represented 
by several specimens. 
On December 2, the New York Academy of Sciences held a 
special meeting at the Museum for the purpose of hearing a lec- 
ture by Professor Albrecht Penck of the Imperial University of 
