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appreciation of Dr. Allen's services to natural 

 history was given b'y Dr. E. W. Nelson, presi- 

 dent of the Society of Mammalogists. 



At the close of the luncheon given by the 

 New York Zoological Society, the mammalo- 

 gists wei'e taken for a private view of the new 

 halls of the National Collection of Heads and 

 Horns and a tour through the park under the 

 guidance of the officers of the Zoological So- 

 ciety. 



PEOGEESS IN ANIMAL PHOTOGRAPHY 



The American Museum had planned for a 

 prize exhibition of photographs of mammals 

 to be held at the time of the meeting of the 

 American Society of Mammalogists. This ex- 

 hibition was opened to the public on May 15, 

 and judges for the exhibition were appointed 

 by President Nelson of the American Society 

 of Mammalogists at the first business meeting 

 of the society. The board of judges appointed 

 by Dr. Nelson was as follows : Dr. Wilfred H. 

 Osgood, chairman. Dr. Witmer Stone, Mr. 

 Charles R. Knight, Mr. James L. Clark and 

 Mr. H. E. Anthony. 



The photographs were exhibited in the Hall 

 of Forestry on the first floor of the museum, 

 where they will remain on exhibition for a 

 month. Some 1,654 photographs were received 

 for this exhibition and there were 139 con- 

 tributors. Requests for photographs and con- 

 ditions of the contest had been drawn up and 

 submitted by an American Museum Committee 

 as follows: Mr. H. E. Anthony, chairman, Mr. 

 Herbert Lang, Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy 

 and Dr. G. Clyde Fischer, but the credit for the 

 very unusual and splendid display of photo- 

 graphs which was brought together must be 

 given to Mr. Herbert Lang, who worked day 

 and night to make the exhibition a success. 

 The unanimous opinion of the many who have 

 seen this exhibition has been that it is easily 

 the finest exhibition of mammal photographs 

 ever displayed in this country. So many un- 

 usual photographs were submitted that the 

 judges found it a difficult task to award the 

 prizes, but finally made the following selection : 

 1. Photographs of Mammals in the Wild State 



First prize: John M. Phillips, Mountain Goat. 



Second prize: Norman MeClintock, White-tailed 

 Deer. 



Third pri.ie: Edmund Heller, ilountain Slieep. 



First honorable mention: Carl E. Akeley, 

 Hartebeest. 



Second honorable mention: Donald E. Dickey, 

 Deer. 



Third honorable mention: Kermit Roosevelt, 

 African Elephant. 



Fourth honorable mention: Edward Mallinc-k- 

 rodt, Brown Bear. 



Fifth honorable mention: Donald B. MacMillan, 

 Polar Bear. 



II. Photographs of Mammals in Captivity 



First prize: Elwin E. Sanborn, New York 

 Zoological Park, Chimpanzee. 



Second prize: J. E. Haynes, Bison Stampede. 



Third prize: W. Lyman Underwood, Bay Lynx. 



First honorable mention: Mr. and Mrs. Ernest 

 Harold Baynes, Wolf. 



Second honorable mention: J. B. Pardee, Fly- 

 ing Squirrel. 



Third honorable mention: Joseph Dixon, Cougar 

 Kittens. 



Fourth honorable mention: Leland Griggs, Fox 

 Head. 



Fifth honorable mention: Arthur H. Fisher, 

 Lioness. 



JOEL A. ALLEN MEMORIAL 



One of 'the most important measures taken 

 up by this meeting of the American Society of 

 Mammalogists was the formulation of plans 

 and the appointment of a committee for estab- 

 lishing a publication fund to be known as the 

 J. A. Allen Memorial Fund. This fund has 

 been set at $10,000, and the interest from this 

 sum, when it has been properly invested, will 

 be used by the American Society of Mammalo- 

 gists for the publication of papers to consti- 

 tute a series of continually appearing memo- 

 rials to the late Dr. J. A. Allen. The com- 

 mittee appointed to raise this fund, and given 

 full powers for this purpose by the society is 

 as follows : Mr. Madison Grant, chairman, 

 President Henry Fairfield Osborn, Mr. Childs 

 Frick, Dr. George Bird Grinnell and Mr. H. E. 

 Anthony. 



It is expected that friends of Dr. J. A. Allen, 

 mammalogists and students of wild' life 

 throughout the country will give theii' su]:iport 

 toward the raising of this fund, since iiatural 

 science has never had a more devoted student 

 than Dr. J. A. Allen, and the purposes for 

 which the fund will be devoted are outlined to 

 give the greatest possible encouragement to 

 research in mammalogy. 



