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a rich and varied collection of ethnolo^cal 

 material seciired by the Eev. H. B. Marx and 

 presented by Mr. J. P. Morgan; a large 

 arcbeological collection from Iroquois sites in 

 New York state, received through bequest of 

 Herbert M. Lloyd; a suite of 68 mineral 

 specimens from France, presented by Pro- 

 fessor Lacroix of Paris; minerals from Chili 

 presented by Mr. H. F. Guggenheim, and from 

 Bolivia, presented by Mr. H. C. Bellinger; a 

 ball, 10 centimeters in diameter, carved from 

 a flawless rock crystal and mounted on a bronze 

 elephant of Hindu workmanship, presented by 

 Messrs. Sidney and Victor Bevin; a Japanese 

 topaz, cut egg-shape and covered with facets, 

 weighing 1,463 carate, donated by Mr. M. L. 

 Morgenthau; a collection of pearls and pearl- 

 aceous growths presented by Mr. George W. 

 Korper; a collection of marine fishes from 

 Peru; a num.ber of Honolulu fishes; a collec- 

 tion of fresh water fishes from China; a series 

 of paleolithic implements from North Africa, 

 selected by the French archeologist, M. Henri 

 Breuil, and purchased through the Morris K. 

 Jesup Fimd; 1,200 mammals from North 

 China and Mongolia — ^the largest and most 

 valuable collection the museum has ever re- 

 ceived from Asia — secured by the Second 

 Asiatic Expedition; and 3,378 specimens (the 

 greater part of which represent species new to 

 the museum's collections) collected by Eollo 

 H. Beck in South America and the West 

 Indies, and presented by Mr. Frederick F. 

 Brewster. This last mentioned item is the 

 most valuable gift the Department of Or- 

 nithology has ever received. The Hall of 

 Geology has been reopened to the public, after 

 extensive re-arrangement and improvement, 

 which is not yet completed. The re-installa- 

 tion of the North Pacific Indian Hall was re- 

 ported to be almost finished. Early in 1920, 

 the American Museum purchased, through the 

 Archer I. Huntington Fimd, the pueblo ruin 

 at Aztec, New Mexico, which it has been 

 investigating for the last five years. It was 

 annoimced last night that in due time this 

 property as uncovered and partially restored 

 by the museiun will be presented to the United 



States to become a national monument and to 

 be administered as a national park. 



THE BIOLOGICAL FIELD STATION OF COR- 

 NELL UNIVERSITY 



Partly by purchase and partly through the 

 generosity of Mrs. Herman Bergholtz, Cornell 

 University has acquired land for what Pro- 

 fessor Needham characterizes as " the best 

 biological field station in this country, if not 

 in the world." The acquisition comprises 

 nineteen and a half acres of land at the north 

 end of the Bergholtz tract, north of Percy 

 Field. It is bounded on the east by the Lake 

 Eoad and on the west by Cayuga Street. In 

 accordance with the specification of Mrs. 

 Bergholtz that the money which her gift rep- 

 resents be used either for the endowment fund 

 or that the land he developed and improved as 

 the trustees should decide, it has been turned 

 over to the College of Agriculture to be de- 

 veloped as an aquatic park and field station. 

 Money for its development is already available 

 from that appropriated by the legislature for 

 the college building and improvement pro- 

 gram. The gift will also he included in the 

 endowment fund. 



The waters of Indian Spring, which is in- 

 cluded in the tract, will be used for trout 

 ponds, and those of the lake will be used in 

 other ponds and marshes where plants and 

 animals may be studied in their native en- 

 vironment. An apiary and field station labora- 

 tory are planned, the latter to cost about $15,- 

 000. Because the area includes swamp, run- 

 ning water and high land, it is considered to 

 be almost idteal for the purpose for which it 

 will be used. Unlike the fresh water field sta- 

 tions along the Great Lakes, the weather con- 

 ditions permit experimenters to work most of 

 the year instead of only about six months. 



Mayor Edwin C. Stewart, of Ithaca, has ex- 

 pressed the hope that the city may develop 

 other land in the vicinity so that all of what 

 is now waste land at the end of the lake may 

 eventually be a park for public use. 



AMERICAN FOUNDATION IN FRANCE FOR PRE- 

 HISTORIC STUDIES 



At a meeting of the governing board of the 

 American Foundation in France for Prehis- 



