MUSEUM NOTES 



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

 membership in the Museum: 



Patron, Mr. Paul J. Rainey; 



Fellow, Mr. Emerson MacMillin; 



Life Members, Dr. Percival Lowell and Messrs. Stanley Doty Brown, 

 Russell Hastings Millward and Edward C. Parish; 



Annual Members, Mrs. F. Schniewind, Misses Mary L. Jobe and Josephine M. 

 Weil, Dr. G. L. Rohdenburg, Prof. William M. Sloane and Messrs. James 

 Arthur, Jerome J. Hanauer, Hubert A. Judge, Robert McGregor, George 

 Oberdorfer and James Spear. 



Under the title "My Oceanographical Cruises," His Serene Highness, the Prince 

 of Monaco spoke before the members of the American Museum and of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences in the Auditorium of the Museum on the evening of October 27. 

 He briefly reviewed his work of the past twenty-five years, from the time he began 

 in a small schooner manned by two sturdy sailors, down to his work on the "Hiron- 

 delle" a twin-screw steamer of 1600 tons, carrying a staff of trained scientists, pro- 

 vided with laboratories and equipped with every device not only for studying the 

 profoundest depths of the ocean, but also for capturing the fishes and cetaceans at the 

 surface and exploring the air for miles above. 



With the aid of slides and motion pictures the Prince described the methods by 

 which the air currents are studied, the conditions of moisture and temperature being 

 registered by instruments raised by twin balloons so prepared that eventually one 

 bursts, the other dragged downward by the weight of the apparatus, marking the spot 

 where it floated. The methods were illustrated of making deep-sea soundings, secur- 

 ing samples of the sea bottom at a depth of two or three miles and at the same time 

 obtaining records of the temperature and samples of the water at various levels. 

 The lecture concluded with an account of the denizens of the deep sea and the methods 

 by which they are secured. In this branch of work the Prince of Monaco has been 

 particularly successful, obtaining by cunningly devised nets and traps hundreds of 

 specimens where others have secured but two or three. 



Dr. Bruno Oetteking, who has received training in some of the best anthro- 

 pological laboratories of Germany and Switzerland, is working over the skull collection 

 made in the course of the Jesup expedition. The data are to be used in the final 

 report on the physical anthropology of the Jesup expedition. 



The cover design of this number of the Journal is from a photograph by Mr. 

 Carl E. Akeley, taken in 1910 on his latest expedition to Africa. It represents a 

 herd of impalla come to drink in the Tana River and is to serve as a study for a 

 portion of the background of a hippopotamus group planned by Mr. Akeley as one 

 of a series for the new African hall in the American Museum. The antelopes ap- 

 proach the water timidly, probably smelling the tracks of lions and leopards which 

 use the same runways to the river, and startled into fear of these enemies behind them 

 and of the crocodiles in the water in front of them, by every sound of the monkeys 

 in the trees and every movement of the hippos on the sand-bars a few yards away. 



On Friday evening, November 21, there will be a public meeting in the large 

 auditorium of the Museum under the joint auspices of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, and the 

 National Committee for the Preservation of the Yosemite National Park, with the 

 cooperation of many civic organizations throughout the United States, to protest 



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