MUSEUM NOTES 



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

 membership in the Museum: 



Life Members, Mrs. Mary A. Tuttle, Miss Grace Scoville and Mr. Arnold 

 Schlaet; 



Annual Members, Mrs. William G. Rockefeller, Mrs. Stanford White and 

 Messrs. Siegmund Adler, T. Broom Belfield, Frederick Blaschke, Howard 

 Chandler Christy, Joseph C. Hand, Augustus F. King, Alexander Konta, 

 Henry S. Lake, H. G. Ramsperger and Lloyd W. Seaman. 



The Couper bust of Professor Albert S. Bickmore [See frontispiece] has recently 

 been placed at the entrance to the Museum auditorium, an especially appropriate 

 location since Professor Bickmore was so intimately associated with the organization 

 and development of the lecture system at the Museum. From 1886 to 1903 at a 

 time when he was a leader in the work of the Museum, he was also identified with 

 the State Department of Public Instruction. He was one of the pioneers in lantern- 

 slide work, being probably the first educator to exhibit slides of such accuracy and 

 beauty. He kept photographers traveling in different parts of the world collecting 

 photographs and he bought the best negatives that were brought back by Museum 

 and other explorers. From such negatives he made up a series of lectures for the 

 teachers in the public schools. When the contract between the Museum and the 

 State terminated, all of the slides and of the original negatives from which the slides 

 had been made went to Albany, Professor Bickmore's personal set of slides alone 

 remaining at the Museum. The great value attaching to this latter set, recently 

 presented to the Museum by Professor and Mrs. Bickmore, was realized when the 

 Albany fire destroyed the original negatives and slides. It is this set of 12,000 beauti- 

 fully colored slides that has made it possible for the Museum to carry on its effective 

 lecture work for school children. During the spring more than twenty lectures were 

 given in the regular course and these were attended by nearly 19,000 pupils. In 

 addition the slides have been in great demand by teachers for special lectures given 

 at the Museum by members of the Museum staff or by the teachers themselves. 



The Crocker Land Expedition is to be congratulated on the appointment as 

 surgeon of Dr. Harrison J. Hunt of Bangor, Maine, Bowdoin College, A. B., 1902 and 

 M. D. 1905. 



A Review of the Primates by Daniel Giraud Elliot has recently been published 

 by the Museum. This is a monographic treatise in three quarto volumes containing 

 1360 pages, 28 colored plates and 512 half-tone figures. Although the apes, monkeys 

 and lemurs surpass all other mammals in scientific interest, it is a striking fact that 

 no satisfactory review of all the known living species has hitherto been published. 

 Dr. Elliot's work treats not only of the generic and specific characters, synonymy, 

 literature and other technical matters, but also very fully of habits. The living 

 animals are shown in twenty-five plates and twenty-eight colored plates, the latter 

 mostly reproductions in four colors from the original lithographic figures published 

 in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London; and photographs of the skulls 

 of more than one hundred species are reproduced with a clearness to allow technical 

 comparisons. A Review of the Primates is interesting also as an example of beautiful 

 book-making. The edition is limited to 850 copies, 500 being offered for sale. 



By arrangement with the Ottawa Museum, Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson of the 

 Canadian Arctic Expedition will bring back a set of duplicate specimens to fill the 

 gaps still existing in the mammal and bird collections of the American Museum. 



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