MUSEUM NOTES 
and of his success in finding new land north 
of Prince Patrick Island, has just been re- 
ceived. After a dangerous trip of seven 
hundred miles northward across the ice from 
Martin Point on the mainland, Stefdnsson 
and his two companions were able to reach 
Bank’s Island. Here the winter was spent 
and during the next spring exploration 
toward the north resulted in the discovery of 
land which may or may not be connected with 
the supposed large land mass north of Alaska 
and Siberia. In the meantime the Southern 
Party of the expedition has been carrying on 
work in geology, topography and ethnology 
along the northern coast of Canada from the 
Mackenzie River Delta to Coronation Gulf. 
Because of the great delay through the loss 
of the ‘‘Karluk” it is planned to continue 
the explorations until 1917. A base camp 
for the northern party has by this time 
probably been established at the northern 
end of Prince Patrick Island. This will allow 
a wide radius for exploration over the ice 
during 1916. 
Tue Collins-Day South American expedi- 
tion previously announced from these pages, 
presented on its recent return large collec- 
tions of birds and mammals to the Ameri- 
can Museum. The interesting itinerary of 
the expedition will be reported in a succeeding 
issue of the JOURNAL. 
ON June 24, the new orange, white and blue 
flag designed for the municipal buildings of 
the City of New York was hoisted on the 
American Museum building, where it has 
since floated on the tower of the east wing. 
The colors under which the new Constitution 
was founded in 1626 have again become the 
official colors of the City, their renewed 
adoption taking place on the 250th anni- 
versary of the installation of the first Mayor 
and Board of Aldermen. At the ceremonies 
in commemoration of this anniversary and 
of the adoption of the ancient civic emblem 
as a new flag of the City, the American Mu- 
seum was represented by the following dele- 
gates: Messrs. Cleveland H. Dodge, Frederic 
A. Lucas and Bashford Dean. The addresses 
of the occasion were by Governor Charles S. 
Whitman, Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, 
William Robert Shepherd, professor of history 
at Columbia University, and Dr. John H. 
Finley, president of the University of the 
State of New York. 
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Dr. Ropert H. Lowrie and four members 
of the Museum resident in California, Dr. 
Jaime De Angulo, and Messrs. W. B. Bourn, 
William H. Crocker and William Kennon 
Jewett, were appointed by the Museum 
and the appointment officially confirmed by 
Marcus M. Marks, president of the Borough 
of Manhattan, to act as delegates on Man- 
hattan Day, at the Panama California 
Exposition in San Diego, August 9, and the 
Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, 
August 19. 5 
Tue third and final shipment of the Lang-' 
Chapin collections from the African Congo 
was received at the Museum in August. 
Recent word from Mr. Lang indicates that’ 
he will probably arrive in New York about 
the middle of October. 
Tue American Dahlia Society in coopera- 
tion with the Horticultural Society of New 
York gave with gratifying success their first 
annual exhibition of dahlias at the American 
Museum of Natural History, September 
24-26. 
Durinc the summer President Osborn 
accompanied the new Assistant Secretary of 
the Interior, Hon. Stephen Tyng Mather, on 
an excursion in the High Sierras, from the 
region of the Sequoia National Park westward. 
The tour included the ascent of Mount 
Whitney and extended to Owen’s Lake on 
the east of the Sierras, from which point the 
party passed northward and took part in the 
opening of the reopened roadway along the 
line of the old Tioga Trail. The object of 
Mr. Mather’s tour was to survey the region 
lying west of the Sequoia National Park with 
a view to its enlargement to include the. 
superb region around Mount Whitney. 
THE Museum was represented at the recent 
meeting of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science by Professor Henry 
Fairfield Osborn and Dr. W. D. Matthew, 
who took part especially in the conferences 
and discussions on the past history of the 
Pacific coast region during Miocene time. 
The meeting was followed by an expedition 
to the region of the Mohave Desert where 
fossil beds containing horses, camels, and 
other extensive Miocene forms have been 
discovered within the last few years. Pro- 
fessor John C. Merriam of the University of 
