MUSEUM NOTES 



Since the last issue of the Journal the following persons have been elected to 

 membership in the Museum: 



Life Members, Mrs. Richard March Hoe, Miss Eleanor deGraff Cuyler 

 and Dr. Allen M. Thomas; 



Sustaining Members, Mrs. Alfred M. Coats, Miss Marie L. Russell, and 

 Messrs. Benjamin A. Hegeman, Jr., Arthur Notman and Ogden M. Reid; 



Annual Members, Mrs. M. J. Bluen, Mrs. Irving Brokaw, Mrs. Starling W. 

 Childs, Mrs. Jefferson Coddington, Mrs. A. B. Frank, Mrs. William Samuel 

 Hawk, Mrs. Adolf S. Ladenburg, Mrs. Henry J. Lamarche, Mrs. R. A. deLima 

 Mayer, Mrs. Titus B. Meigs, Mrs. U. H. Painter, Mrs. L. A. Pfletschinger, 

 Mrs. W. S. Rainsford, Mrs. John Sinclair, Mrs. Francis H. Slade, Mrs. H. B. 

 Wight, Miss Louisa Low, Miss Elizabeth M. Sharpe, Miss Georgina Schuyler, 

 Hon. Edgar J. Lauer, Dr. Amos Canfield : Dr. John E. Weeks and Messrs. 

 Percy H. Ashmead, T. Arthur Ball, Alvin V. Baird, Charles Baird, Max S. 

 Boehm, Theodore Boettger, Richard C. Bondy, William Bondy, Charles P. 

 Bonnett, Enos S. Booth, J. W. C. Campbell, Jose E. Chaves, George U. Clau- 

 sen, John Clerici, William H. Crocker, DeWitt A. Davidson, Leonard M. 

 Davis, Arthur R. Denman, William A. Dobbyn, Francis P. Dodge, Walter 

 Douglas, Henry E. Dunn, Edmund Eckart, Richard Edie, Jr., Benno Elkan, 

 William Erdmann, James C. Fenhagen, Lockwood deForest, Julius Franke, 

 William S. Friedlander, William K. Gillett, Henry Gleason, James A. Gold- 

 smith, William Gottgetreu, Austin M. Greer, Anthony Gref, Alfred C. 

 Greening, C. W. Hammill, George B. Herzig, Henry R. Hillard, W. J. Hoggson, 

 B. H. Homan, Leo M. Klein, John G. Luke, Lea Shippen Luquer, Samuel 

 McRoberts, Melville D. Martin, T. Anson Matthews, Morton H. Meinhard, 

 S. Stamwood Menken, Barrington Moore, John Nicolson, Rutledge Irving 

 Odell, A. G. Paine, Jr., Milton C. Palmer, G. Elton Parks, L. O. Peck, George 

 H. Perkins, Charles W. Place, Otto Eugene Reimer, Charles W. Rendigs, 

 George C. Riggs, Walter Clark Runyon, Ackley C. Schuyler, Charles O. 

 Scull, Frank Seamen, Myles Standish Slocum, F. L. Stallman, J. Crawford 

 Stevens, Percy S. Straus, Moses Tanenbaum, Richard E. Thibaut, Joseph B. 

 Thomas, Karl H. Vesper, H. D. Walbridge, Allen Wardwell, Arthur L. 

 Wessell, Walter K. Wildes and Francis A. Wilson. 



Preparations for the Crocker Land expedition are progressing satisfactorily. 

 The University of Illinois has made an appropriation which provides for the addition 

 of a trained zoologist to the expedition party, and Dr. M. C. Tanquary, a graduate 

 of the University, has been appointed to the post. The General Electric Company 

 has offered to contribute a thoroughly up-to-date outfit for power for wireless teleg- 

 raphy and electric lighting, heating and cooking; the American Geographical Society 

 has added three thousand dollars to its previous subscription of six thousand; Mr. 

 Zenas Crane has increased his subscription by an additional twenty-five hundred 

 dollars; Mr. George B. French has added one thousand to the fund and Colonel D. L. 

 Brain ard has contributed one hundred dollars. The United States Navy Department 

 has added the detail of a skilled electrician and wireless operator to its previous 

 detail of Ensign Fitzhugh Green to the cartographic and magnetic work of the 

 expedition; the United States Hydrographic Office and Naval Observatory are 



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