00 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
Tue Hopi Indian group in the Southwest 
Indian hall has been completed and is now 
open to the public for mspection. This 
group aims to present a unified complete 
picture of pueblo life as illustrated in the 
home and industrial life of the Hopi Indians. 
The foreground is the roof of a Hopi dwelling, 
which is the center of daily life for the Hopi 
home. Here are shown life-size character- 
istic figures of Hopi men and women at their 
respective occupations: the men spinning and 
weaving, the women making baskets and pot- 
tery. In the background is the village of 
Walpi, on the end of the first Hopi mesa, 
with the village of Sichumovi in the distance. 
The group was designed and executed by 
Howard McCormick, an artist already dis- 
tinguished for his paintings of scenes of the 
Southwest, and the figures were modeled by 
Mahonri M. Young, who codperated with 
Mr. McCormick in the planning of the group. 
It is the first anthropological group con- 
structed by the Museum at all comparable to 
the bird groups for which the institution has 
become famous, and marks the turning point 
in the development of the anthropological 
exhibits. 
An opening view of the Hopi group was 
given to friends of the Museum on April 8 
and was preceded by an exhibit of motion 
pictures taken by Mr. McCormick illustrat- 
ing many phases of Hopi life which are 
represented in the group. 
Worp has been received from Mr. H. E. 
Anthony, who is making a collection of birds 
and mammals for the Museum in Panama, 
that on February 21, he reached the base of 
Mount Tacarcuna in eastern Panama where 
he is favorably situated for the projected 
explorations to Mount Tacarcuna. 
Earty in the spring of 1914 Lord William 
Perey of Northumberland, England, under 
the auspices of the American Museum, joined 
the revenue cutter “‘Bear”’ on an expedition 
to the coasts of Alaska and Siberia for the 
purpose of securing water birds and especially 
Visher’s eiderduck. While Lord Perey was 
still in Alaska the ‘‘Bear” chanced to take 
by wireless a message which gave the news 
of the war. Lord Perey, who is a reserve 
member of the Grenadier Guards, left the 
ship immediately, made arrangements for 
transportation to Seattle and arrived in New 
York about a month afterward, and from 
there sailed immediately to join his regiment 
at the front. Since that time occasional 
letters with personal facts of the war have 
come to New York. He was in France for 
four months. At one time the English 
troops were stationed only one hundred yards 
from those of the Germans and as he ex- 
pressed it, ‘‘For us the war consists of shell- 
ing and shooting at the Germans all day and 
all night and of being shot at and shelled by 
them. It is not a very attractive\form of 
warfare.’ A short time ago Lord Percy’s 
friends in the Museum learned that he had 
been wounded and had lain for several hours 
in a shell-hole before he received medical 
attention. We are glad to learn that his 
wound, although serious, will probably admit 
of an early recovery. 
MopE ts have recently been installed in the 
hall of public health illustrating how the 
mosquitoes which transmit diseases are con- 
trolled upon the Isthmus of Panama. One 
model is a street scene which shows a disin- 
fecting squad at work destroying yellow fever 
in the houses where the disease has occurred. 
A second model illustrates the burning of 
grass and the oiling of ditches to destroy 
malaria mosquitoes in open country. 
Mr. Leo E. Miniter writes from South 
America that he has completed his work in 
Antioquia and on March 30 sailed from 
Barranquilla to Colon en route to Bolivia, 
where it is proposed to inaugurate a zodlogical 
survey similar to that which the Museum has 
conducted in Colombia for the past five years. 
Mr. Miller’s collections amounting to two 
thousand birds and mammals have been re- 
ceived and make an exceedingly important 
addition to the Museum’s Colombian collec- 
tions. 
Tue Librarian would be glad to receive 
back numbers of the JouRNAL, even those of 
quite recent date, as they are frequently 
asked for by libraries and other institutions 
desiring to complete volumes. 
THE government of Porto Rico has made 
the second annual appropriation of five 
thousand dollars for the continuance of the 
scientific survey of the island under the 
auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences 
in codperation with the American Museum 
and other institutions. Several members of 
the Museum staff will be engaged in this work 
during the coming months. 
