MUSEUM NOTES 15 
in their praise of this effort of the Museum to assist them, and 
many requests have been received that the course be continued 
in the spring. One teacher writes: “It is a great event for the 
little ‘East Cide’ children to be taken to these lectures, and 
they always make special preparation days ahead. They heard 
the lecture on the American Indians October 28, and they have 
not ceased to talk about it. Every child has written a com- 
position on the lecture.”’ 
Messrs. G. H. Goss and H. D. Dodge of Waterbury, Con- 
necticut, have given the Museum a choice lot of about 250 speci- 
mens of beetles collected by themselves on Mt. Kinabalu, 
British North Borneo. 
Mr. J. RHINELANDER DILLON has presented a fine nest of a 
wild honey-bee (Apis mellifera) built on the branch of a wild 
cherry tree. 
SOME excellent wasps’ nests from Brazil have recently been 
placed on exhibition. 
A COLLECTION of butterflies and moths from the province of 
Yakutsk, Siberia, has been added to the collection. 
THE exhibition collection of galls produced by insects has 
been rearranged and labeled in conformity with Guide Leaflet 
No. 16 on “The Insect Galls of the Vicinity of New York City.’” 
Durinc the past year the study collection of the Department 
of Entomology has been undergoing a complete rearrangement. 
The various collections which have been kept separate hereto- 
fore are being united so as to form a uniform series. 
AMONG the instructive models which have been added to the 
series on exhibition in the Synoptic Hall, 107, are those of 
several Polyzoa and a huge Synapta. Several sponges have 
been mounted and tinted with the color of the living specimens 
as observed on the reefs of the Bahamas. 
