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The following were the new appointments: 



Frank E. Watson, B.S., Assistant in the Department of 

 Invertebrate Zoology. 



Ann E. Thomas, Ph.B., Assistant in the Department of 

 Public Education. 



In recognition of his public service in connection with the 

 Zoological Park and the American Museum, Professor Henry- 

 Fairfield Osborn was presented with a gold medal by the 

 National Institute of Social Sciences on March 20 at the New 

 York Academy of Medicine. 



The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia has con- 

 ferred the Hayden Memorial Medal for the year 1914 upon 

 Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn in recognition of his contri- 

 butions to the science of vertebrate palaeontology. 



Director Lucas was the official representative of the Museum 

 at the opening of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, on 

 March 19. He was also the delegate of the Museum to the 

 American Association of Museums at Milwaukee, in May. 



Dr. E. O. Hovey, of the Department of Geology and 

 Invertebrate Palaeontology, and Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, of the 

 Department of Public Education, represented the Museum at 

 the inauguration of Dr. John H. Finley as President of the 

 University of the State of New York on January 2. 



Dr. Clark Wissler and Dr. Robert H. Lowie, of the Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology, were to be the delegates of the Museum 

 to the Nineteenth International Congress of Americanists, 

 which was to have been held in Washington in October, but 

 the European war compelled the canceling of these meetings. 



At the inauguration of Dr. Livingston Farrand as Presi- 

 dent of the University of Colorado, the Museum was repre- 

 sented by Professor T. D. A. Cockerell of Boulder, Colorado. 



Dr. Frank E. Lutz, of the Department of Invertebrate 

 Zoology, has been named as the representative of the Museum 

 on the Editorial Board for the list of insects of New York 

 State, to be published by Cornell University. 



Curator Winslow has resigned from the Faculty of the 

 College of the City of New York to become Director of the 

 Division of Publicity and Education of the reorganized New 



