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ployees, wliilc two new .idditions will ))i<)vi<l(' work tor ;is many inoic 

 when com])leU'(l. 



"I like it iinnH'iiscl\ . \ on should see me workiiijj;. I iiiiaf^inc it 

 would be quite a treat. 1 wish there were twenty days in a week. I 

 have so much 1 want to study and so much work to do I can't seem to 

 catch uj). 



"I feel as fit as a prince. 1 slcc]) lik(; a ton ol' l)rick and eat accord- 

 ingly. 1 have lost weight, hut that is because 1 have put off fat and 

 taken on real strength. I expect to be home Christmas. Send me all the 

 news. Regards to Dr. Chapman, Rogers, Millei-, and all the rest. " 



Mr. Chapin has recently l)ecii electc<l a Trustee of tli(> Staten Island 

 Museum. 



Early in (Jcto})er, the members of the l^ong Island ( 'itv Chaj)ter No. 

 410 of the Order of the Eastern Star made a visit in a l)ody to the Mu- 

 seum, and spent an afternoon among our exhibits. 



The month of October brought us a numl)er of inii)orant acces- 

 sions. These included thirteen fur seals from St. Paul and St. (Jeorge 

 Islands, Alaska, which will be used in a gi'oup, and which are a gift 

 from the Alaska Department of (yonnnerce. Bureau of Fisheries; a fine 

 crystal sphere mounted in bronze, from Japan, the gift of Messrs. Sydney 

 and Victor Bevin; a Mexican blanket which formerly belonged to a 

 notorious Mexican bandit named Vidauri, who was killed by United 

 States troops in 1857, the gift of Mrs. August Kirkham; and, by gift 

 from John Marshall, the horn of an Indian Rhinoceros, with leather 

 case worked and stami^ed in color, said to have been presented to Pope 

 Gregory XIV in 1590 by the Prior and Brothers of the Monastery of 

 Saint Mary of Guadalupe, Spain. By ))urchase, a large colUn'tion of 

 Peruvian textiles and twenty Peruvian pottery vessels were secm*ed; 

 and by exchange with the University Museum of New Zealand, we have 

 acquired two carved wooden slabs worked by old Aiawa carveis of 

 Rotorua . 



( )n October li)th. Lady Kathleen Scott visited the Museum and was 

 entertained at hmch \)\ Mr. Akeley and Mr. Shenvood. Lady Scott. 

 who is the widow of Robert Falcon Scott, the explorer, w as once a pupil 

 of Rodin and is well-known as a Hcnlpt<*)r. I>iring her stay in this city, 

 she is making a portrait of Mr. Akeley. 



