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President Osborn lius received from Governor Smith an ajjpoint- 

 ment to membership in the commission to examine into plans for a 

 State Roosevelt Memorial. 



Among recent visitors to the Museum was Franz Ernst Blaauw, a 

 prominent ornithologist of Holland, who is an authority on aquatic 

 birds. He is the author of a monograph on the Cranes, and is now 

 particularly interested in keeping and breeding exotic water fowl in 

 captivity, at his large and splendidl3^ equipped aviaries in Holland. He is 

 a frequent contributor to The Avirultural Magazine, and has also con- 

 tributed notes to The Ibis for many years, chiefly on questions pertain- 

 ing to aquatic birds and also regarding the capture of rare species in 

 Holland. His visit to this country is a short one. It includes a trip 

 across the continent on the Southern Pacific, with a return by a more 

 northern route. He will sail for Holland in August. 



Dr. Tower and Mr. Sherwood have taken up their summer residence 

 in Clinton. 



Mr. Knight has completed his central mural for the Hall of the Age of 

 Man. 



Mr. R. C. Andrews and family are now living at New Canaan, 

 Connecticut. 



Mr. Leslie Spier has received the appointment of Associate Curator 

 for the year 1920-21 in the Museum of the Department of Anthropology 

 of the University of California. 



Mr. William W. Graves, of St. Louis, visited the Museum in June 

 and examined and measured the scapulae in our collec tions. He has been 

 making a study of the human scapula for a number of years, anrl has 

 written numerous papers on the subject. 



Mrs. H. J. Volker, of Gorumahisani, India (formerly IMiss Florence 

 Schwarzwaelder, of the Department of Ichthyology) is a faithful corre- 

 spondent. In her latest letter she mentions having journeyed to a neigh- 

 boring mine by motor over "what they called a road." She enclosed 



