MUSEUM NOTES 95 



Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson will sail early in March for Europe where he will 

 purchase a part of the scientific equipment for the new Arctic expedition. He will 

 address the Royal Geographical Society while in London and later attend the Inter- 

 national Geographical Congress at Rome as delegate of the National Geographic 

 Society. 



A reception at the Museum on the evening of February 26 marked the opening 

 of the exhibition of collections, paintings and photographs illustrating the daily life 

 and ceremonies of the Indians of the Southwest. In this exhibition the following 

 complete collections are placed on view for the first time: The Collis P. and Archer 

 M. Huntington collections; the Anson W. Hard seiape collection; the J. P. Morgan 

 Navajo collection; the Mrs. Russell Sage blanket collection; the James Douglas 

 basket collection; selected specimens from the Hyde archaeological collections and 

 the Lumholtz Mexican collections. 



Among the pictorial exhibits are a series from the Morgan collection of Curtis 

 prints and one from the Museum collection of Karl Moon photographs. The late 

 Louis Akin is represented by paintings loaned by Messrs. C. L. Le Fevre, G. H. 

 Frommann, Goelet Gallatin and W. H. Simpson. The following artists have loaned 

 examples of their work: Ernest L. Blumenschein , R. W. Chanler, Kate Cory, E. 

 Irving Couse, E. W. Deming, Howard McCormick, Bert G. Phillips and Mahonri 

 M. Young. The exhibition will remain open to the public until March 26. 



The Museum has announced to the principals and teachers of the New York 

 City schools a series of lectures grouped in three courses in accordance with the new 

 method adopted in the fall. The lectures will be given by the members of the Mu- 

 seum staff and will specialize on the history and geography of the United States and 

 New York City. They will be illustrated with lantern slides and moving pictures. 



The Institute Solvay, Bruxelles, in its last Sociological Bulletin published extracts 

 and translations in French of Dr. Wissler's recent Museum publication on the "Cere- 

 monial Bundles of the Blackfoot Indians." Two full pages of illustrations and some 

 text figuies were also reproduced. The parts of the paper dealing with the social 

 aspects of certain religious ceremonies were regarded as important sociological con- 

 tributions. 



A series of natural history picture stoiies has been arranged for the children of 

 members of the Museum. These are designed primarily for entertainment, yet 

 through the pictures taken from life hope to teach something of the habits of wild 

 creatures and the relationship and interdependence of all life. They will be given 

 on Saturday mornings in the auditorium of the Museum and will be illustrated with 

 moving pictures. The stories will be as follows: 



March 1 — "Jungle Scenes in Africa, India and Borneo," by Cherry Keartox 

 March 8 — "Wild Animal Neighbors," by Ernest Harold Baynes 

 March 15 — "A Monkey on Safari," by Carl E. Akeley 

 March 22 — "Poonkong and his People," by Pliny E. Goddard 

 March 29 — "Our Friends the Trees," by George H. Sherwood 



A shipment of birds and mammals has been received from Mr. W. B. Richardson, 

 who has been collecting for the Museum in Ecuador. 



Dr. W. S. Rainsford, in charge of the Museum's third African expedition, re- 

 ports that he has been successful in securing a large series of specimens, including 

 the black rhinoceros which was one of the special objects of the expedition. 



