MUSEUM NOTES 
Tue American Ethnological Society, which 
was founded in 1842 by Mr. Albert Gallatin, 
has adopted a new constitution with a view to 
incorporating a society for the safeguarding 
of its growing endowment fund. 
Tue Museum has recently secured a large 
collection consisting chiefly of pottery taken 
from the island of Marajo, Brazil, by Mr. 
Algot Lange. This pottery was secured on 
Mr. Lange’s second expedition to South 
America, the first having been made for the 
University Museum of Philadelphia. 
A REPRESENTATIVE collection of Salvador 
archeology which Dr. Herbert J. Spinden 
obtained last summer by arrangement with 
the government of Salvador, has lately ar- 
rived at the Museum and has been installed 
in the Mexican hall. The specimens include 
pottery and stone, and represent a long period 
of art with several distinct phases. There are 
many examples of archaic pottery which may 
date from before the time of Christ, as well as 
beautiful painted vases of the Maya civiliza- 
tion and glazed ware of the Aztec period. 
Proressor C.-E. A. Winstow has been 
appointed to the newly established Anna 
M. L. Lauder professorship of public health 
at the Yale Medical School. He will give up 
his connection with the New York State 
Department of Health and the Teachers’ 
College to take up this work next fall, but will 
continue to act as curator of public health at 
the American Museum. 
At the May meeting of the New York 
Academy of Sciences Dr. Charles H. Town- 
send exhibited moving pictures of recent 
Biological Survey dredging operations in 
Long Island Sound by the United States 
Fisheries steamer ‘Fish Hawk.” The fauna 
of the muddy bottom in the middle of the 
Sound, Dr. Townsend said, is considerably 
different from that along the margins where 
oyster beds abound. It includes great num- 
bers of spider crabs, flounders and whelks. 
Dr. Charles B. Davenport, director of the 
Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution 
at Cold Spring Harbor, described the fauna 
of the brackish waters on the north shores of 
Long Island and showed how different forms 
which are dependent upon salt water, such as 
mussels, Littorea and barnacles, manage to 
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live in brackish water if they can get purer 
salt water at high tide. Professor Raymond 
C. Osburn read a paper on the ‘‘ Geographical 
Distribution of the Bryozoa of the Atlantic 
Coast of North America.” Nearly three 
hundred species of Bryozoa are known to 
inhabit the coastal shelf down to the hundred- 
fathom line. The species fall for the most 
part into three groups: (1) cosmopolitan 
species or those of wide range; (2) northern 
species often circumpolar, which range 
southward along the coast; (3) tropical 
species, which range northward from Florida. 
Charts indicating the relation of the bryo- 
zoan distribution to ocean temperatures and 
currents were exhibited. 
Dr. RaymMonp C. Osspurn of the New 
York Aquarium, assistant professor of zodl- 
ogy in Barnard College, Columbia Univer- 
sity, has accepted the professorship of biology 
in the Connecticut College for Women at 
New London. He will be greatly missed by 
his colleagues in New York, who hope that he 
will be able to keep in touch with his scientific 
interests here. 
Notice of the death of the distinguished 
English paleontologist and zoélogist, Richard 
Lydekker occurs in Nature for April 29. Dr. 
Lydekker was well known as a high authority 
upon mammals both living and extinct. His 
most notable contributions to scientific re- 
search dealt with the fossil mammals and 
dinosaurs of India and Argentina, but he is 
perhaps better known as the author of a 
number of excellent text-books and treatises 
of a more popular kind dealing with the liv- 
ing and extinct mammalia. Among these 
may be especially mentioned: A Geographic 
History of Mammals, Mammals Living and 
Extinct (Flower and Lydekker), Manual of 
Paleontology (Nicholson and Lydekker), The 
New Natural History, Deer of All Lands, The 
Horse and its Relatives, The Ox and its Kin- 
dred, Game Animals of Africa, Game Animals 
of India, Mostly Mammals (a collection of 
essays). He was the author of the Cata- 
logues of Fossil Mammals, Reptiles, Am- 
phibians and Birds in the British Museum, 
of numerous articles in the last edition of the 
Encyclopedia Britannica, a frequent con- 
tributor to Nature, The Field, Knowledge, 
Science Progress and other English periodicals, 
to the Proceedings of the Zoélogical Society 
and other journals of research. 
