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sending Mr. Richard L. Garner to Africa to 
get motion pictures of the native and animal 
life of that part of the country which he 
knows so well. He will make especial effort 
to secure motion pictures of gorillas and 
chimpanzees. Mr. Garner is well known to 
the public as the man who years ago made a 
study in Africa of the language of the gorilla 
and chimpanzee. The directors of the new 
company are Mr. Carl E. Akeley of the Ameri- 
can Museum, Messrs. Raymond L. Ditmars 
and H. R. Mitchell of the New York Zodlogical 
Society and Mr. William C. Glass. 
Dr. Rosert H. Lowie, leaving the Museum 
early in June, visited the Kiowa to ascertain 
the character of their military societies, and 
spent the remainder of June and the month 
of July with the Hopi of Arizona paying 
particular attention to their clan and family 
relationships. He attended the meetings of 
the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science and of the American An- 
thropological Association at Berkeley during 
August, and was official delegate at the 
Panama Pacific Exposition, representing the 
Borough of Manhattan on Manhattan Day. 
AMONG important recent additions to the 
hall of public health in the Museum is a 
model showing the increased efficiency of the 
present hospital service at Panama over that 
of the French period. This model shows a 
hospital in the French period in care of a 
Sister of Mercy. Puddles of water were 
allowed to gather about the ground, and the 
legs of the beds were placed in cans of water 
to prevent ants from crawlingup. As we now 
know, yellow fever and malarial fever 
mosquitoes bred in such accumulations of 
stagnant water and helped to keep the 
hospitals well filled. Screens were not used 
and the ventilation was not of the best. The 
companion part of the model shows a French 
hospital, altered to conform to our most 
modern ideas and knowledge of the relation 
of insect and disease. A clean, dry cellar, 
well-kept grounds, screens, increased ventila- 
tion and the care of trained nurses serve to 
change an insanitary, disease-breeding build- 
ing into the acme of sanitation. 
TurouGH the generosity of Mr. Ogden 
Mills the Museum library has received a copy 
of the colored edition of the famous Antiqui- 
ties of Mexico by Lord Kingsborough. This 
monumental work in nine folio volumes, 
published 1831-48, was originally undertaken 
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
by Lord Kingsborough in order to test the 
theory, then prevalent, that the American 
Indians were the lost tribes of Israel. He 
made facsimile reproductions of all native 
manuscripts from Mexico and Central 
America then known, including many famous 
codices of the Maya and the Mexicans; re- 
published many valuable government reports 
and collected all available evidence bearing 
upon Mexican civilization. The work con- 
tains one thousand plates, colored by hand 
from the originals, embracing the remains of 
Mexican picture-writing, architecture and 
sculpture, thus giving to the world a record 
of one of the most wonderful civilizations ever 
known. There are facsimilies of the ancient 
paintings and hieroglyphics preserved in the 
royal libraries of Paris, Berlin, Dresden and 
Vienna; the Vatican Library; the Borgian 
Museum at Rome;- the library of the Insti- 
tute at Bologna and the famous Bodleian 
Library at Oxford. To-day this work, con- 
taining as it does the only reproductions ever 
issued of a number of very important native 
manuscripts, is absolutely indispensable to 
students of Mexican archeology. 
Durine the past summer Messrs. Roy W. 
Miner and Herman O. Mueller of the depart- 
ment of invertebrate zodlogy of the Muse- 
um, investigated the marine coastal fauna of 
Porto Rico, as a part of the biological survey 
of that island being made by the New York 
Academy of Sciences. Headquarters were 
established at Ensenada on Guanica Harbor 
through the courtesy of the Guanica Sugar 
Centrale which furnished many facilities to 
the expedition. Collecting was carried on in 
Guanica Harbor and the adjacent portions of 
the coast, including the outlying coral reefs 
from Guayanilla Bay westward to Cabo Rojo. 
This summer’s work together with that of last 
season completes the survey of the entire 
western half of the south coast of Porto Rico, 
besides the work already done at San Juan on 
the northern coast and Mayaguez on the 
western coast. 
Tue classification of the shore fishes col- 
lected by the Townsend “ Albatross”? Expedi- 
tion to Lower California in 1911 is now near- 
ing completion. This work has been done 
by Dr. Raymond C. Osburn of the New York 
Aquarium assisted by the Museum’s depart- 
ment of ichthyology. The collection includes 
sixteen new species besides several others 
which were very little known. 
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