MUSEUM NOTES 



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

 membership in the Museum: 



Life Members, Messrs. C. M. Bergstresser, Henry W. Boettger, Robert 

 Boettger, Louis J. Bonry, James C. Brady, J. Howard Ford, A. V. de 

 Goicouria, William Kennon Jewett, William Lathrop Rich, Thomas F. Ryan, 

 Byron L. Smith, Alfred G. Vanderbilt; 



Sustaining Members, Messrs. William Bruce-Brown, David Liebmann, 

 Ewald H. Schniewind; 



Annual Members, Mrs. G. Falk, Mrs. E. Freund, Mrs. Edward A. Gross- 

 mann, Mrs. Frederick A. Halsey, Mrs. Blanche W. Hull, Mrs. Percy Jackson, 

 Mrs. John A. Joseph, Jr., Mrs. A. W. Openhym, Mrs. Wllliam A. Perry, Mrs. V. 

 Sydney Rothschild, Mrs. William Cummings Shannon, the Misses Alice H. 

 Annan, Lillian Benet, Caroline Choate, Lucy Hunt, M. E. Lowndes, Emily F. 

 Spooner, May Sterns, Dr. Otto Sussman and Messrs. John Dunbar Adams, 

 Winthrop W. Aldrich, Leon Samson Altmayer, C. L. Auger, Thomas H. Barber, 

 Ira Barrows, Joseph H. Bendix, D. J. Benoliel, Max Binsw anger, Thomas K. 

 Boggs, Henry L. Cammann, Edward B. Camp, Walter F. Chappell, H. C. 

 Chatfield-Taylor, Hugh J. Chisholm, A. P. Clapp, J. William Clark, Albert 

 Clayburgh, A. De Witt Cochrane, Aaron Coleman, Frederic M. Crehore, 

 William H. Davidge, J. M. Dittenhoefer, George Ehret, Jr., Charles Ewing, 

 William J. Flesh, M. Frankfort, George C. Fraser, Robert A. Gardiner, 

 Louis Goldsmith, I. Edwin Goldwasser, Fred H. Greenebaum, Alfred Harris, 

 J. Armory Haskell, H. C. Heimerdinger, John Lockman Helmuth, Harold 

 Herrick, M. H. Hirschberg, Berthold S. Horkheimer, W. Truslow Hyde, 

 Guy B. Johnson, J. Henry Kahrs, John Clapperton Kerr, Lee Kohns, Jacob J. 

 Lesser, Arthur E. Londerback, Angus S. Macdonald, Thomas S. McLane, 

 Herbert R. Mainzer, Samuel Marcus, Frederick Mathesius, Jr., H. F. Noyes, 

 William Barclay Parsons, Aaron S. Pennington, William D. N. Perine, Seth 

 Low Pierrepont, Rudolph Recht, L. Reichenbach, Henry B. H. Ripley, 

 William M. Savin, Hewlett Scudder, Jr., R. D. Shipman, Michael M. 

 Shoemaker, Augustine J. Smith, Frederic O. Spedden, J. Clinton Spencer, 

 William Frederick Stafford, Spencer W. Stewart, Frederic J. Stimson, 

 John R. Strong, Sterrett Tate, Robert Thorne, H. W. Van Wagenen, E. 

 Robbins Walker. 



The electric lighting of large buildings has progressed so rapidly that what seemed 

 admirable a decade ago is now hopelessly behind the times. In this respect the Mu- 

 seum has fared badly; not only is the power insufficient to operate all the old in- 

 candescent lights at once, but even at the best they contrast but poorly with the 

 modern tungsten lights. The view of memorial hall taken during the recent exhibit 

 of the Horticultural Society of New York, shows well the vast improvement of the 

 present lights over the old-time clusters. The light though brilliant is soft, and while 

 every part of the hall is illuminated and shadows are obliterated, the eye of the ob- 

 server is not strained. This shows what might be accomplished throughout the 

 building were funds available for the replacement of the old lamps by new, since the 

 present engine power is sufficient for a complete installation of tungsten lamps. 

 The small lecture halls, the hall containing the exhibit of the department of public 

 health and that containing the collection of local birds have been equipped with new 

 fixtures and tungsten lamps, and these give more than a hint of the improvement 

 that might be effected in other halls. 



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