MUSEUM NOTES 
phases which in some instances are very local. 
A few years ago the Museum secured two 
beautiful skins and skulls of the white bear 
from Gribbell Island, British Columbia, 
(which had been named Ursus kermodet), 
through Mr. Kermode, curator of the Pro- 
vincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia. 
There seems to be little doubt that instead of 
being a new species, the white bear is also a 
color phase of the black bear. The so-called 
cinnamon bear is a well-known color phase of 
this same species. Very often in a single 
litter black and cinnamon bears are found 
together. The Museum has in mind the 
preparation of a group showing all of these 
color phases of the black bear. Through a 
gift to the Museum by Mr. Norton of a mag- 
nificent specimen of a glacier bear taken in 
Disenchantment Bay, Yakutat, Alaska, there 
remains only the lack of a cinnamon bear to 
allow the construction of such a group. 
THE department of invertebrate zodlogy 
will actively participate in the Porto Rico 
Survey during the coming summer. Dr. F. 
E. Lutz and Mr. A. J. Mutchler will prose- 
cute entomological investigations in various 
parts of the island; Mr. Roy W. Miner and 
Mr. H. Mueller will establish headquarters 
at Guanica Harbor for studies upon marine 
invertebrates; while Professor Raymond C. 
Osburn will carry on dredging operations 
mainly along the southwest shores, codper- 
ating with Mr. Miner. For several weeks 
Dr. A. G. Mayer of the Carnegie Institution 
and a group of zodlogists will also be carrying 
on special investigations about Guanica. 
SINCE the last issue of the JouRNAL the fol- 
lowing persons have become members of the 
Museum: 
Patron, Mrs. BASHFoRD DEAN; 
Fellow, Mr. Henry Forp; 
Life Members, Dr. EM1ILie SNETHLAGE, and 
Messrs. FREDERIC ALMy CAMMANN, JAMES 
P. CwHaprn, ANDRE DE Coppet, FRANK 
LeGranp GILLIss, HERBERT Lane, P. W. 
LIVERMORE, HERMAN STuTzeER and JAMES 
B. WiLBur; 
Annual Members, Mrs. GrEorGE CoNnRAD 
Coox, Mrs. Racuet Lenox Porter, Miss 
Autce L. CuarK, Miss EvizaBetuH Doucuas, 
Dr. P. Maxwentt Fosuay, Dr. Harry 
Justin Roppy, Dr. Cuarues H. Youna, 
and Messrs. I. p—E Bruyn, Grorce H. 
Capp, HERBERT STANLEY CONNELL, HENRY 
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Doscuer, FREDERIC HUNTINGTON DouGLAs, 
Houutanp S. Dusit, Joun M. Gienn, F. 
HERRMANN, AuGust Kuun, Jutius Kun, 
Lee Lauriz, Ivy L. Lez, E. A. McInHENny, 
WiuuramM C. Murpny, D. E. Pomeroy, RoGER 
M. Poor, Ropert W. Sayues, H. JERMAIN 
Sitocum, Jr., FRANK B. Smipt, JAcoB STEIN- 
HARDT, CARLL TUCKER, WILLIAM YOUNG 
WESTERVELT and FREDERICK N. WILLSON. 
Mr. Hersert Lana has been appointed 
assistant in mammalogy and Mr. James P. 
Chapin assistant in ornithology. Mr. Lang 
and Mr. Chapin have also been elected life 
members of the Museum in recognition of 
their efficient services in conducting the 
Congo expedition. 
Mrs. BasHrorp DEAN has recently been 
elected patron of the Museum in acknowledg- 
ment of her recent contributions toward the 
preparation of the bibliography of fishes; 
Mr. Henry Ford has been made fellow, in 
appreciation of his generosity in presenting 
to the institution the bust of John Burroughs; 
and Dr. Emilie Snethlage, life member, in 
recognition of her practical interest in the 
development of the Museum’s South Ameri- 
can collections. 
Dr. CHrestTeR A. REEDS and Mr. Prentice 
B. Hill of the department of geology and 
invertebrate paleontology will leave on May 
29 to carry on stratigraphic and palzontologic 
investigations in Porto Rico in connection 
with the Porto Rico Survey. 
Messrs. H. E. AnrHony and D. S. Batu 
have returned from an expedition to the 
mountains of the Isthmus of Darien in eastern 
Panama, bringing with them a collection of 
1100 birds and 250 mammals, many of which 
are new to the Museum’s collections and some 
undoubtedly new to science. These col- 
lectors left for the field the latter part of 
January, but owing to the inaccessibility of 
the country to be explored, they had only 
about two months in which to accomplish 
their work before the rainy season set in. 
It took them nearly a month to reach the 
ground where they were to do their collecting 
and almost as long to return from there. At 
the City of Panama they were joined by Mr. 
W. B. Richardson, who had been doing some 
preliminary work in Darien. The party left 
the City of Panama on February 8 and going 
