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The now editorial room of Xatural Ilisfory has been comple'ed, 

 including the installation of a number of very neat eabinc'.s. The office 

 is a great improvement on the former edi orial room. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Smyth spent part of September at Indian 

 Lake, in the Adirondacks. 



Mr. Sniffin is recovering from his illness resulting from a fall. We 

 are all glad to see him looking so much better. 



President Osborn has just returned from a three-weeks' camping 

 and fishing trip in the Lauren' ian Highlands northwest of Quebec, in 

 the game reservation of the Tourilli Club. It is interes-ing to note that 

 Comp'Toiler Craig is spending his vacation in the adjoining preserves of 

 the Triton Club. 



We understand tha^ Mr. Ramshaw is building a bungalow. He 

 expects to need it some time next spring — so rumors say. 



Miss Remmey has just comple ed a vacation in Canada, during 

 which she enjoyed a trip on the Saguenay River. 



While away in the mountains, some two hundred miles from New 

 York, Joe Tyson had the temerity to try to hold back a rapidly moving 

 Ford. He came out second-best in the contest and spent nearh' tw^o 

 weeks wilh his leg swashed in bandages. His respect for Fords has gone 

 up 200% since he picked himself up out of the dirt. 



The public lectures of the City's Department of Education to be 

 given at the Museum s art early in October. 



As one ins'ance of the Museum's growing success in inheres' ing 

 school children in natural his'ory, comes the gift of a bit of bog-iron 

 found by a Long Island boy who believed it to be a meteorite. He was 

 wrong, this time. But he may be right ano':her time. 



And speaking of inheres ing the children, Mr. Hyde's work with the 

 Boy Scouts is getting on famously and assuming gratifying proper' ions. 



