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and are perhaps unusual in being authentic 
unposed records. Mr. Deming returns to 
Glacier Park in the summer of 1915 and hopes 
to continue this picture record of Blackfoot 
ceremonies and also to obtain phonograph 
records of Blackfoot songs. 
THERE were shown in the auditorium of the 
Museum on December 31, motion picture 
films telling the story of the rescue of the 
Stefansson survivors from Wrangell Island. 
In June, 1914, news of the sinking of the 
Stefansson exploration ship “ Karluk” the 
previous January, and the marooning of the 
survivors on Wrangell Island, had been 
brought to civilization by Captain Robert E. 
Bartlett, across the ice from Wrangell to 
Siberia. The rescue of the survivors from 
Wrangell was made on September 7 by Mr. 
Burt M. McConnell (who but recently had 
been of the supporting party with Stefansson 
on his ice trip north into Beaufort Sea) in 
the “King and Winge,’’— although he would 
give all credit for the rescue to Olaf Swenson, 
commander of the “King and Winge,” and 
to Captain Jochimsen, ice pilot. The pic- 
tures showed the “King and Winge”’ buck- 
ing the ice on its way to the island and 
the taking off of the twelve people from the 
flat ice-covered shores leaving only the frail 
tent, the flag at half-mast and the cross 
above the graves of the three dead, to mark 
what had been a camp for human beings for 
eight months. The pictures showed also 
Stef4nsson, commander of the expedition, 
removing supplies from the ‘‘ Belvedere” and 
later starting out on the ice trip from Martin 
Point; and included besides remarkable 
photographs of bear and walrus hunting 
from the decks of the “King and Winge.”’ 
At the recent session of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science 
the following honors were conferred upon 
members of the anthropology staff of the 
Museum: Dr. Pliny E. Goddard was reélected 
president of the American Folk Lore Society 
and was elected editor of the American 
Anthropologist, the foremost anthropological 
publication of America; Dr. Robert H. Lowie, 
who performed the duties of acting secretary 
in the absence of Professor George Grant 
MacCurdy, was reélected associate editor 
of the American Anthropologist, and Mr. 
Alanson Skinner was elected assistant secre- 
tary of the American Folk Lore Society. 
THE lectures for the blind classes in the 
public schools of New York City, given under 
the direction of the department of public 
education of the American Museum of Natu- 
ral History, began November 12 and will con- 
tinue until June 15. Two schools from 
Brooklyn, one from the Bronx, and eight 
from Manhattan are regular visitors, each 
class receiving individual attention, and, 
during the year, having from four to seven 
meetings at the Museum. The schedule for 
1914-1915 will include simple illustrated talks 
on ‘Fur Babies and Their Ways,” “Animal 
Life at the Seashore,” ‘‘ Bird Neighbors and 
Their Homes,” “ Flowers of the Springtime,”’ 
“The Story of the Trees,’ ‘‘ How the Trees 
Protect Themselves in Winter,” ‘‘ Hiawatha’s 
People,’ “Inside the Indian’s Wigwam,” 
“Our Little Eskimo Cousin,” “ The Story of 
Cotton, Silk, and Wool,” “A Journey from 
Pole to Pole,” and “The Story of Animals 
and Vegetation of Different Climates.” 
A new work entitled The Indians of 
Greater New York by Mr. Alanson Skinner 
has been published by the Torch Press. 
This exhaustive study has been written to 
meet the constant demands of those inter- 
ested in the history of our local Indians. 
Mr. Skinner has had opportunity to examine 
-many of the original sources of information 
which were rare and difficult to procure, and 
has not hesitated to quote freely their 
quaint phraseology. The book is written in 
popular style and deals with the history, 
archeology and ethnology of the Manhattan 
Indians and their neighbors. 
THE department of geology has been fortu- 
nate in securing for the meteorite collection 
fourteen falls and finds which are entirely 
new to the Museum’s series. The most inter- 
esting of these is an eight hundred and eleven 
gram slice of the Big Skookum siderite. 
This meteorite was found at a depth of sixty 
feet from the surface in the glacial gravels 
near the Yukon River, Alaska, and is there- 
fore supposed to be of glacial age. 
Tue exhibits in the Peruvian hall have 
been recased to make room for the collection 
of Nasca pottery purchased through the 
generosity of Mr. A. D. Juilliard, a trustee 
of the Museum. This collection has been 
installed in two large wall cases at the west 
end of the hall. 
