MUSEUM NOTES 
Since the last issue of the JouRNAL the 
following persons have become members of 
the Museum: 
Life Members, Messrs. 
Kerr, Jk., SAMUEL KIssaAM 
SEWELL Tappan TYNG; 
Annual Members, Mrs. ALFRED NoROTON 
Puinurs, Mrs. JuLiA SELIGMAN, Mrs. 
Auics E. SHOENBERGER, Mrs. Fircu W. 
Smita, Mrs. Jenny K. Starrorp, Mrs. 
Davin McNeety Staurrer, Mrs. 8. M. 
Srroocx, Mrs. Gustavus A. WALKER, Mrs. 
Istpor WorMsER, the Misszs E. J. BARNARD, 
Louise G..CRABBE, CHRISTOBELLE CRAIN, 
Eva Hawkes, Emma FELLOWES TAYLor and 
Evetyn M. Tuomson, Dr. JoHn B. Knapp, 
and Messrs. Orro T. BANNARD, ARTHUR 
CLEVELAND Bent, JoHN W. A. Davis, 
TuHroporE G. Ecer, LEopotp F. GOELLER, 
Grorcre A. HoupeEN, Epwarp M. Houses, 
Fay Incauus, Witt1AM MICHAELIS, FREDER- 
ick H. SanBporn, Donaup Scott, ABRAHAM 
Suman, WILLIAM SKINNER, RocueEsTeR B. 
SLAUGHTER, FrREDERIC E. SONDERN, ARTHUR 
P. Srureces, Howarp Tayntor, MyYLes 
WatsH, Eucens W. WatkKINs, and T. W. 
WILLIAMS. 
LEWIS SAYRE 
KKeRR and 
Mr. H. E. AntrHony, accompanied by Mr. 
David 8. Ball as assistant, left New York 
January 29 to join Mr. W. B. Richardson 
in southern Panama for a four month’s 
collecting trip. There is little known z06- 
logically of the high mountainous region 
between Colombia and Panama, and the 
results of the expedition must prove of un- 
usual interest in showing a possible connect- 
ing link between the extinct fauna of North 
and South America. The party hopes to 
secure a representative collection of the birds 
and mammals of the region, which will serve 
to connect the Museum’s recent work in 
Colombia with the earlier work done in 
Central America. The expedition hopes also 
to round out the Museum’s accessions of 
mammals and birds so that they include 
a practically continuous collection from 
Mexico down into Peru. 
Tue Jesup Lectures will be given in the 
auditorium of the Museum on Friday even- 
ings during February and March, from Feb- 
ruary 5 to March 25 inclusive. In these 
lectures, Charles P. Berkey, associate pro- 
fessor of geology in Columbia University, 
will speak before the friends of the University 
and of the American Museum of Natural 
History on the ‘Origin and Meaning of Some 
Fundamental Earth Structures.”” The sub- 
jects of the individual lectures follow one 
another as follows: February 5, ‘‘Concerning 
the Origin and Nature of the Earth’; Feb- 
ruary 12, ‘Earth Movements”; February 
19, “The Place and Work of Volecanism”’; 
February 26, ‘‘Metamorphism”’; March 5, 
‘Primary and Secondary Structures”; March 
12, ‘“‘Petrographic Cycles”; March 19, 
“Application to Local Studies’; March 26, 
“Relation of Structural Geology to Practical 
Undertakings.” 
Tue American Ethnological Society in 
conjunction with the Section of Anthropology 
and Psychology of the New York Academy of 
Sciences met on January 25, at the American 
Museum of Natural History. Rev. John 
W. Chapman presented a paper, ‘The 
Medicine-Men of Anvik, Alaska,’’ and an 
informal discussion followed. Some of the 
questions asked were referred to Mr. Thomas 
Reid of Anvik, Alaska, an educated half-breed 
who was visiting the Museum at the time 
to follow out certain studies in the anthropo- 
logical department. 
Apropos of the visit of Sir Douglas Mawson 
to the Museum, it may be noted that the map 
of the South Polar regions [at the foot of the 
stairway on the first floor] has been revised 
and brought down to date, so that it includes 
the discoveries of Sir Douglas and other recent 
Antarctic explorers. 
Tue loan collection of Dr. J. Leon Williams 
illustrating the skulls of the ‘Men of the Old 
Stone Age,” a series of restorations of ancient 
types of prehistoric man by Professor J. H. 
McGregor, and a selected series of flint imple- 
ments and works in ivory illustrating the art 
of the Old Stone Age, have been sent to the 
Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. 
Professor McGregor’s series of restorations 
includes skulls and busts of the following 
subjects: Pithecanthropus erectus, the Nean- 
derthal race and the Piltdown man, besides 
reconstructed brain casts of these stages. 
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