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Mr. Howarp McCormick has begun work 
on the canvas for the background of a second 
Indian habitat group to be placed in the 
Southwest Indian hall. The group represents 
Apache Indians engaged in various occupa- 
tions under a flat-topped shelter of boughs 
and gives as a background a view of the San 
Carlos river valley and neighboring moun- 
tains where these Apache live. Studies for 
the group were made by Mr. McCormick in 
Arizona in 1914. 
THe Museum has recently secured by 
purchase through the Dodge fund, from Mr. 
P. A. Bungart, a local collector of Lorain, 
Ohio, a valuable collection of Dinichthyids 
from the Devonian shales of Ohio. The 
collection of thirty-three specimens includes 
several complete crania and a number of 
other remains of high scientific value. 
Mr. F. A. Watson is on the north coast of 
Santo Domingo making collections for the 
department of invertebrate zodlogy. The ex- 
penses of his trip are being covered by Mr. 
B. Preston Clark of Boston, Massachusetts. 
Mr. Clarence R. Halter, who is spending May 
and June in the same region, is collecting 
reptiles and batrachians for the Museum. 
Tue sledge used by Admiral Peary on the 
expedition which reached the North Pole, 
has been loaned to the Oakland Museum for 
exhibition during the period of the Panama- 
Pacific exposition. 
Tue purchase of the collections made by 
Mr. Richard Douglas in Matebeleland, South 
Africa, a few years ago, secures to the Museum 
a large series of prehistoric stone implements 
and a considerable series of baskets and other 
ethnological specimens, as well as small col- 
lections of reptiles, mammals and birds from 
the region. 
Two accessions of interest recently received 
by the department of anthropology are an 
Indian-made canoe, weighing thirty-nine 
pounds and decorated with beads on the bow, 
the gift of the Hudson Bay Importing Com- 
pany, and a beautiful feather hammock from 
Brazil presented by Mr. Charles R. Flint. 
A PRELIMINARY report on the fishes ob- 
tained in Porto Rico last summer by Mr. 
John T. Nichols is published in the American 
Museum Bulletin. Mr. Nichols lists twenty- 
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
two species not previously recorded from the 
island and describes two new species. His 
work on the fishes of Porto Rico was done in 
connection with the biological survey of the 
island made by the New York Academy of 
Sciences for the insular government. 
Amone the recent anthropological publi- 
cations of the Museum is one on Pawnee 
Indian Societies by James R. Murie, a dis- 
tinguished Pawnee chief. For several years 
Mr. Murie has been gathering data from the 
oldest men of his race and under the immedi- 
ate supervision of Dr. Clark Wissler, has 
prepared several manuscripts for publication, 
of which the present issue is the first. 
Proressor A. L. Kronper, head of the de- 
partment of anthropology in the University of 
California, will spend the next academic year 
in New York City as a guest of the Museum. 
He has also volunteered to assist in the 
Museum field work by spending the summer 
in the Pueblo of Zuni. Professor Kroeber 
was formerly connected with this Museum, 
when he distinguished himself in the investi- 
gation of American decorative art. 
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 of the Museum, is also a member. 
GENERAL THomas H. Hupparp, lawyer, 
veteran of the Civil War and director in many 
corporations, died at his home in New York 
City on May 19 after an illness of but a few 
days. General Hubbard had been a member 
of the American Museum of Natural History 
since 1875 and had been somewhat closely 
associated with it through his interest in 
Arctic explorations. He was an active mem- 
ber of the Peary Arctic Club from the date 
of its first meeting in 1899 and was its presi- 
dent after the death of Mr. Morris K. Jesup 
in 1908. It was his financial aid together 
with that of Mr. Jesup, Mr. Crocker and other 
members of the Club, which made possible 
the discovery of the North Pole by Peary. 
Several Arctic geographical names, such as 
Hubbard Glacier and Cape Thomas Hubbard, 
bear witness to Peary’s acknowledgment of 
General Hubbard’s aid. General Hubbard 
was also one of the most generous contrib- 
utors to the Crocker Land expedition. 
