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MuscHim people are among the many who felt real regret on hearing 

 of the death of Jacob Sehiff, who, in his active life, not only called forth 

 wide recognition as a banker and financier of great achievements, but 

 won the dee]) regard and appreciation of a large public as a man of 

 native kindliness and broad philanthropy. 



Mr. Schiff's gifts to the Museum included: a collection illustrating 

 the use of the cocoanut palm by the Melanesians, and a collection illus- 

 trating the use of iron by the Africans; large collections from China, 

 including antique bronzes and pottery, household utensils, costumes 

 kites, ornaments, embroideries on silk, cloisonne work, masks, etc., all 

 of which material was collected by Dr. Berthold Laufer, on the East 

 Asiatic Expedition. 



Dr. Carl Lumholtz, who has been in Europe for some time, dropped 

 in at the Museum this week to renew acquaintances. 



A memorial oak-tree to the late Theodore Roosevelt was planted 

 by The New York Bird and Tree Club in the cemetery at Oyster Bay on 

 October 27th. Mr. Pindar represented the Museum. Dr. Kunz, Lord 

 Rathcreedan, Mr. Pindar and others made addresses. 



Dr. Raymond A. Dart, an assistant of the comparative anatomist. 

 Professor Elliot Smith of the University College, London, has been 

 .spending two weeks in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 

 studying the collection of natural and artificial brain casts of fossil 

 mammals and reptiles. Dr. Dart is on Rockefeller Foundation work and 

 is to spend the winter at Washington University, St. Louis. He plans 

 to return to the Museum next summer for more extended studies on our 

 collection. 



We are glad to welcome Mr. Richard Cutler, who is acting as vol- 

 unteer assistant in the Department of Geology. 



Museum baseball enthusiasts have been greatly interested in the 

 games between the American Museum and the Metropolitan Museum. 

 A healthy rivalry has grown up between the two teams and the two 

 groups of "fans." We "Americans" of course feel that our team has 

 more than justified our faith in it by its .successive victories of October 



