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group is the influence exerted by the Museum toward the enact- 
ment of a law which has just gone into effect establishing a close 
season on the Flamingo and other birds which formerly were 
without legal protection in the colony, and prohibiting the killing 
of song and insectivorous birds at any season. 
MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. 
same) LARGE part of the Philippine exhibit of the St. 
E| Louis Exposition has been acquired by the 
Museum, subject only to a gift of certain dupli- 
cate material to the Smithsonian Institution and 
to the Commercial Museum of Philadelphia. 
When packed, ready for shipment, the material thus acquired 
filled twenty freight cars. All visitors to the exposition will 
realize that this acquisition is a matter of the highest import- 
ance not only to the Museum and to the city; but to the country 
at large, and that it places here the most comprehensive single 
collection representing the life and industries of any of the 
groups of Pacific islands. 
The material has arrived at the Museum and a small portion 
of it has been arranged for temporary exhibition in the North 
and West Wings of the second floor of the building, but there is 
material enough to fill an entire wing of the building without 
duplicating exhibits. The present temporary installation en- 
ables the visitor to gain a very good summary idea of the culture 
of the important tribes inhabiting the islands. Clothing and 
textile fabrics, household utensils, agricultural implements, fish 
and game traps, arms, houses, boats and other means of trans- 
portation and articles of manufacture, all find their place here 
in ample illustration. The Museum, furthermore, is exhibiting 
part of the original material at the Lewis and Clark Centennial 
Exposition at Portland, Oregon. The Portland exhibit will 
come to the Museum at the close of the exposition. 
J. Prerpont Morcan, Eso., has lately added to the gem 
collection material representing forty-one mineral species used 
or available for use as gems. Among the cut stones are some 
