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On Sunday, September 26th, Mr. Benjamin Connolly was married. 

 We offer our congratulaiions and all good wishes. 



On September 21s':, Dr. A. K. Haagner, Director of the Na'ional 

 Zoologi 'al Gardens at Pretoria, showed some remarkable Ian' ern slides 

 and mo [ion })ictures of South -African animals. 



The American Museum baseball nine will play the Me'ropoli an 

 Museum team on Saturday. October 9ch, at 1:15 p. u., on the Central 

 Park Sheep Meadow. All welcome. Xo admission fee. Team will leave 

 here at 12:30. 



Mr. Clarence A. Hough, who on behalf of ihe Chicago Art Ins:i- 

 tute is investigating various methods of propaganda for institu':ions of 

 art and science, visited the Tvluseum in September and was given a 

 complete survey of the publicity methods employed here. He ex- 

 pressed great surpri^^e at the scope of the work, in which the American 

 Museum holds the position of pioneer. 



Owing to the absence of a very large number of employees on vaca- 

 tion, no September number of the Museologist was issued. 



Those men who try to do something and fail, are infinitely better 

 than those who try to do nothing and beautifully succeed. 



Jenkin Lloyd Jones. 



IN THE FIELD 



We take pleasure in quoting from a letter of August 1st, sent us by 

 Mr. Anthony, in Ecuador : 



"We had a very comfortable passage down, making excellent con- 

 nections at Panama and arriving at Guayaquil on July Is' . We spent a 

 week about that city getting things lined up and doing a little collecting 

 too. We took a side-wheel steamer then for about 23 hours down the 

 coast to Santa Rosa where we got eight mules, six for our equipment 

 and two saddle mules and then crossed over the western range of the 

 Andes to Portovelo where the mines are located. This is a wonderful 

 trail, one of the most difficult for travellers in Southern Ecuador, bu<: 

 at this time of the year it is dry and so it was merely a question of hard 



