86 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
RecENT additions to the hall of fossil 
mammals include a skeleton and a series of 
skulls of the clawed ungulate Moropus. 
These are part of the series of skeletons ob- 
tained by recent Museum expeditions to the 
great fossil quarry at Agate, Nebraska. 
Skeletons of the sabre-tooth tiger and the great 
extinct wolf from the asphalt deposit near 
Los Angeles, as also skulls of the fossil horse 
and the great American lion from the same 
locality are likewise placed temporarily on 
exhibition, although not yet mounted. 
Attention may also be called to the fine series 
of skulls in the Oreodont alcove on the north 
side of the hall. 
Tue following papers were presented before 
the recent session at Philadelphia of the 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science by members of the staff of the 
American Museum of Natural History. 
Geological Society of America 
CuestTerR A. ReeEps, ‘Geologic Deposits 
in Relation to Pleistocene Man,’ and 
“Graphic Projection of Pleistocene Climatic 
Oscillations.” 
Gerorce F. Kunz, “John Boyd Thacher 
Park — The Helderberg Escarpment as a 
Geological Park.” 
Paleontological Society of America 
Henry F. Ossorn, “ Migration and Suc- 
cession of Human Types of the Old Stone 
Age of Europe.” Presidential address before 
the Palzontological Society, ‘‘The Addition 
and Evolution of ‘Characters’ in Palzeonto- 
logic Phyla.”’ 
CarLos DE LA Torre and W. D. Mat- 
THEW, ‘‘ Megalocnus and other Cuban Ground 
Sloths.”’ 
W. D. MatrroEew 
Hyopsodus.”’ 
Barnum Brown, 
second contribution.” 
WALTER GRANGER, ‘‘New Evidences on 
the Affinities of the Multituberculata.”’ 
WiuuiamM K. Gregory, ‘American Eocene 
Primates”; and “‘On the Relationships of 
Anaptomorphus, Necrolemur and other ex- 
tinet Lemuroids.”’ 
W. D. Marruew, “Reconstruction of the 
Skeleton of Brachiosaurus.”’ 
L. Hussaxor and W. L. Bryant, “ The 
Fish Fauna of the 'Conodent Bed (Basal 
Genesee) at Eighteen Mile Creek, near Buffalo, 
New, York.” 
“On the Affinities of 
“The Ankylosauride; 
The American Society of Naturalists 
Henry F. Osporn, ‘‘The Museum in the 
Public Service.” 
The American Folk-Lore Society 
Purny E. Gopparp, Presidential address, 
“The Relation of Folk Loreto Anthropology.” 
American Anthropological Society 
HERBERT J. SPINDEN, ‘‘ Nahua Influence in 
Salvador and Costa Rica.” 
Cuark Wissuer, ‘The Diffusion of Mod- 
ern Ceremonies in the Plains Area,’ and 
“Types of Clothing and their Distribution 
in the Plains Area.” 
Nets C. Netson, “‘ Chronological Data on 
the Rio Grande Pueblos.” 
ALANSON SKINNER, “‘Ethnology of the 
Eastern Dakota.” 
Rosert H. Lowi, ‘‘Exogamy and the 
Classificatory System of Relationship.” 
Social and Economic Science 
C.-E. A. Winstow, ‘‘Community Defense 
of National Vitality.” 
Physiology and Experimental Medicine 
C.-E. A. Winstow, “Standards of Ventila- 
tion — Hygienic and Msthetic.” 
The Society of American Bacteriologists 
IsraABL J. Kuicumr, ‘A Study of the Cor- 
relation of the Agglutination and Fermenta- 
tion Reactions among the Streptococci.” 
TurouGH the generosity of Mr. Ogden 
Mills, the Museum has added to its collec- 
tions a beautiful specimen of bandolier or 
beaded bag, secured in Fort Leavensworth, 
Kansas, in 1854 from the Delaware Indians. 
Dr. Frank E. Lurz, of the Museum’s de- 
partment of invertebrate zodlogy, has been 
appointed a member of the board of editors 
of the New York State List of Insects. Mr. 
Charles W. Leng, honorary curator of Coleop- 
tera is also a member. 
TueRE have been so many calls for the 
moths mentioned in Gene Stratton Porter’s 
books, Girl of the Limberlost and Moths of the 
Limberlost that a special exhibit of these 
species has been installed in the gallery case, 
east wing, third floor. 
AMONG recent important accessions to the 
department of geology mention may be 
made of the Ysleta siderite, weighing 310 
pounds, from Ysleta, Texas, and the Culbert- 
son aérolite, weighing 13 pounds, from 
