MUSEUM NOTES 



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

 membership in the Museum: 



Patron, Hon. Charles Smets; 



Sustaining Member, Mr. H. C. Fahnestock; 



Life Members, Mrs. William G. Nichols, Mrs. M. Robertson, Mrs. William 

 Sloane; His Excellency, J. Malpeyt, and Messrs. Albert H. Baldwin, Alfred 

 Dejonge, and George Eastman; 



Annual Members, Mrs. A. J. Bloomberg, Mrs. J. B. Edson, Mrs. August 

 Lewis, Mrs. Julius Loewenthal, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Jr., Mrs. James E. Pope, 

 Mrs. Oscar Rosenthal, Mrs. Emily M. Scott, Mrs. Theodore Thomas, Miss 

 Eva R. Ingersoll Brown, Dr. Harry R. Salomon, Prof. Edmund B. Wilson 

 and Messrs. George B. Bernheim, Henry S. Brill, William W. Cohen, Nicholas 

 Evertson Crosby, Henry Duchardt, Nathan Fleischer, Herbert Frankel, 

 Henry E. Frankenberg, Charles A. Gould, John M. W. Hicks, Jonas Lie, 

 Hugo V. Loewi, Charles L. Loop, Charles W. McCutchen, Fred. A. Mack, 

 Edward F. McManus, Frank H. Main, John Palmer, P. Stuyvesant Pillot, 

 Fred. L. Reis, Myron W. Robinson, C. P. Schlicke, Walter Scott, Gerald 

 Sherman, Eugene E. Spiegelberg, Duncan Sterling, Joseph Tate and R. B. 

 Van Dyke. 



Mr. John Borden of Chicago, who is planning a hunting trip in the Arctic for 

 big game and has built for the purpose an especially designed schooner yacht, will 

 endeavor to secure for the Museum the skeleton of a bowhead whale. With this in 

 view, he has invited Mr. Roy C. Andrews of the Museum to accompany him upon 

 the cruise. The party will leave San Francisco about the first of July upon the yacht 

 which is now on her way around the Horn. Besides making especial efforts to kill a 

 bowhead whale, the members of the party will spend considerable time in hunting 

 brown and polar bear, walrus and caribou. The whale if secured will be towed to 

 the nearest harbor and Mr. Andrews will be landed to prepare the skeleton, which 

 will be sent to Seattle by coasting schooner for shipment to New York. Mr. Borden's 

 yacht carries a fully equipped New Bedford whaleboat, and is captained by Mr. 

 Charles Sparks, an experienced whaleman from Provincetown. 



The Museum is especially to be congratulated upon the opportunity which Mr. 

 Borden has presented to acquire the skeleton of this whale. Because of the great 

 expense attendant upon securing a specimen, since this species has a high commer- 

 cial value, its acquisition had seemed impossible. This one species alone is needed 

 to complete the Museum's collection of large cetaceans. There are at present no 

 bowhead skeletons in America and but little scientific data is known as to the external 

 anatomy. Through Mr. Borden's generosity moreover it may be possible to exhibit 

 in the proposed new whale hall of the Museum not only the complete skeleton, but 

 also a life-size model of this remarkable animal. 



During the month of May there will be on exhibition in the west assembly hall 

 and adjoining corridor a series of paintings of Alaskan scenes by Leonard M. Davis, 

 some of the results of many years' residence in Alaska. The series comprises more 

 than a score of large canvases and about one hundred small studies — ■ snow-clad 

 mountains, gorgeous sunsets, brilliant auroras, flower-clad hillsides, displaying the 

 wealth of color that makes the northland a continual surprise to those who think of 

 it as always bleak. 



The State of Arkansas has long been noted for the unusually fine class of stone 

 implements found in the mounds and ancient village sites occurring in that region. 



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