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FOREIGN MUSEUMS 



Our relations are becoming more cordial with the Museums 

 of the Continent and with those of South America in each suc- 

 ceeding year. There is a vast amount of material which we 

 may offer in exchange, and in return secure valuable collec- 

 tions that are not represented at present. Among the chief 

 institutions from which exchanges are in active progress are 

 the following: 



Australian Museum Sydney, New South Wales 



British Museum (Natural History). . .London, England 



Canadian Geological Survey Ottawa, Canada 



Fuknaka University of Japan Tokio, Japan 



Museum fur Volkerkunde Berlin, Germany 



Natural History Museum Basel, Switzerland 



Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria 



Royal Bohemian Museum Brag, Bohemia 



Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt, Germany 



IMPORTANT GIFTS 



In the new Members' Room are now hung the following por- 

 traits: The new portrait of Mr. Joseph H. Choate, painted and 

 presented by the Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy; the portraits of the 

 three past presidents of the Museum, namely, of Mr. John 

 David Wolfe and Mr. Robert L. Stuart, painted by Daniel 

 Huntington, and of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, painted by Eastman 

 Johnson; the portrait of Mr. James M. Constable, painted by 

 A. Miiller Ury. The portrait of Mr. Robert Colgate, one of 

 the influential Founders, painted by Daniel Huntington, has 

 recently been presented to the Museum by his family. It is 

 especially desirable to add to this collection a copy of the 

 portrait of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, who was one of the lead- 

 ing Founders of the Museum. 



Among the important gifts of the year are the following: 

 The Lumholtz collection from the Papago Indians, pre- 

 sented by Mr. Archer M. Huntington; a painted buffalo-hide 

 tipi, by Mrs. E. H. Harriman; a collection of baskets from 

 the South Sea Islands, by Dr. James Douglas; an archaeologi- 

 cal collection of gold objects from Ecuador, presented by 

 Mr. D. C. Stapleton; African collections, by Dr. William S. 

 Rainsford; models of extinct South American animals, by 



