THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 
THE ethnological material collected by Mr. A. J. Stone on his 
first expedition to Alaska has been acquired by the Museum. 
The objects were obtained, for the most part, along the Macken- 
zie river and the Arctic coast and represent the early culture 
of tribes which have been greatly affected in late years by 
French missionaries. 
Mr. WaLpEMAR Bocoras has returned from his travels in 
Siberia, in connection with the Jesup North Pacific expedition, 
notices of which have appeared in the JouRNAL from time to 
time, and has begun the study of the large amount of material 
which he has collected and sent to the Museum. 
GEORGE Foster PEABopy, Esq., has furnished the Museum 
with funds for the purchase of the Steiner collection of archzeo- 
logical implements from Georgia, which forms a desirable addi- 
tion to the Museum series representative of North American 
archeology. 
B. Tatspotr B. Hype, Esq., has purchased the Andrew E. 
Douglass library, which has long been at the Museum with the 
Douglass collection, and which contains many rare treasures of 
archeological literature, and has made it available for use in 
connection with the Hyde exploring expedition. 
Miss M. W. Bruce has presented the Department of Miner- 
alogy with a large and showy group of calcite crystals from 
Joplin, Missouri. The chief feature of the group is a large com- 
posite scalenohedron, the top of which is capped by a single 
turban-shaped crystal. 
Earty in April Professor R. P. Whitfield returned from his 
vacation, which he spent visiting southern California. 
Mr. Georce H. SHERWOOD, the Assistant Curator of the 
Department of Invertebrate Zodlogy, has gone to Woods Hole 
to continue the experiments on the artificial propagation of the 
lobster which have been under way for some years by the United 
States Fish Commission. 
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