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tific man, Ferdinand Venderveer Hayden, 
had established a deed of trust arranging for 
a sum of money and a bronze medal to be 
given annually to the author of the best 
publication, exploration, discovery or re- 
search in geology or paleontology, or a similar 
subject. Professor James Hall, of Albany, 
received the award in the first instance and 
the other nine succeeding him were Edward 
D. Cope, 1891; Edward Suess, 1892; Thomas 
H. Huxley, 1893; Gabriel August Daubree, 
1894; Carl H. von Littel, 1895; Giovanni 
Capellini, 1896; Alexander Petrovitz Kar- 
pinski, 1897; Otto Torell, 1898; Giles 
Joseph Gustav Dewalzue, 1899. In 1900 
the deed of trust was modified so as to award 
a gold medal every three years. The first 
to receive the new medal was Sir Archibald 
Geikie; the second was Dr. Charles D. 
Walcott in 1908 and the third John Casper 
Branner in 1911. 
Tue Annual Meeting of the Board of 
Trustees of the American Museum of Nat- 
ural History will occur on the evening of 
February first, when the members of the 
Board will be guests of President Osborn at 
dinner at his residence, 850 Madison Avenue. 
Tue December meeting of the Section of 
Biology of the New York Academy of Sciences 
was devoted to a “Symposium on Porto 
Rico”’ in which the progress of the Academy’s 
natural history survey of that island was 
described. 
Professor Charles P. Berkey outlined his 
geological reconnaisance of the island, in 
which he and Dr. Fenner had traveled more 
than two thousand miles. They had studied 
the rocks at so many points that they were 
enabled to construct a preliminary geological 
map which revealed the general geological 
history of the island. 
Professor N. L. Britton outlined the pro- 
gress of the botanical investigation of the 
island. The material collected by the 
Academy workers has been distributed to a 
number of specialists and from their labors, 
knowledge of the flora is rapidly being ex- 
tended. 
Dr. Marshal A. Howe by means of the 
stereopticon illustrated a series of marine 
algee which he collected recently. Espe- 
cially interesting were the reef-building 
coralline alge. Dr. N. Wille summarized 
the present knowledge of the fresh-water 
alge, in which much further collecting is 
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necessary. Mr. Roy W. Miner described 
his collecting of marine invertebrates. Mr. 
Frank E. Lutz in summarizing the present 
knowledge of the insects and spiders touched 
upon several interesting problems of distribu- 
tion in which Porto Rico offers an attractive 
field for further work. Mr. J. T. Nichols 
described the fish fauna of the island. 
THE manuscript for a book, “Men of the 
Old Stone Age,’ which covers the long 
Paleolithic history of Europe, was com- 
pleted by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn 
during the month of November and it will 
appear from the Scribner press in February. 
The writing of this work was suggested by 
the author’s tour through the caverns of 
Italy, France and Spain, described in the 
December, 1912, number of the JOURNAL. 
The work differs from the volumes recently 
published by Professor Sollas, Lord Avebury 
and Professor James Geikie in presenting a 
fuller description of the various primitive 
races of men and in giving a connected story 
of the geology, geography, climate, and de- 
velopment of the flint industry and art. An 
attempt has been made to give a very clear 
and semipopular treatment of our present 
knowledge of the long prehistory of Europe, 
closing with the advent of the men of the 
New Stone Age, which is believed to have 
occurred between 7000 and 9000 years ago. 
Mr. N. C. Newson has returned from 
several months’ archeological field work in 
New Mexico. His work this year was a 
continuation of that of previous years on the 
ancient villages of the Tanos, south of Santa 
Fé. He made partial excavations of three 
large ruins, digging out altogether about four 
hundred and fifty ruins from which he brought 
back approximately seven hundred specimens 
for the Museum. A large number of skele- 
tons were also secured, some from the ruins 
and some from refuse heaps belonging to the 
different villages. In his excavations Mr. 
Nelson discovered a_ stratified deposit in 
which four distinct types of pottery were 
found. Since the pueblos clustered all about 
the region belong to one or more of these 
pottery-making stages, the chronological 
position of most of the ruins can now be 
determined on the basis of this discovery. 
Str Dovuctas Mawson will lecture on 
“Racing with Death in Antarctic Blizzards,” 
under the auspices of the American Geo- 
