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Thirteen boxes of fossils, secured from Agate, Nebraska, by AH)ert 



Tlioiiisoii Mild Cloorpo Olson, have arrived at the Museum. 



Major Allan Brooks, of Canada, recently visited the Museum as the 

 {i;uest of Dr. D wight. He spent several days looking over our bird col- 

 lections, especially Dr. Dwight's shore birds, and was shown the Barnes 

 motion pictures of Africa. Members of the De{)artment received from 

 him some expert advice, graphically given, on ammunition suitable for 

 u.se in collecting. It will be remembered that Major Brooks contributed 

 an article to Natiual History a few months ago which described post- 

 war bird life on the Artois plain. 



An organization meeting of the Roosevelt Memorial Commission, 

 ai)pointed by Governor Smith to investigate proposals for a New York 

 State memorial to Roosevelt, was held in the Board Room of the Mu- 

 seum on November 18th. Professor Osborn w^as elected Chairman, and 

 Mr. Pindar, Secretary. Discussion and consultation were held, and the 

 Commission visited Mr. Akeley's studio where they were shown the 

 work on which Mr. Akeley is engaged for a national memorial. The 

 next meeting will l)e held in Albany. 



During the war, and until the present time, Museum employees, con- 

 tributing through the American Museum War Relief Association, have 

 supported a number of European war orphans. At present, seven 

 children are being maintained with funds supplied in this way. Several 

 of the annual subscriptions for these children, however, will shortly 

 expire. The War Relief Association has disorganized, and the money 

 left in the treasury has been used up for orphan relief. But a number of 

 employees have voluntarily spoken to the former chairman of the orphan 

 relief work in regard to undertaking the care of some of the children for 

 another year. This can be done if enough Museum people are interested 

 to the extent of making small contributions to an orphans' fund. With 

 $40.00, we can sui)i)ort for another year our little Belgian girl (Helene 

 \'an Hove, eight years old) ; and with $36.50 we can keep for one more 

 year our French boy (Jean Hureau, nine years old). Just now our 

 family of god-children numbers, in addition to these, a Polish, an 

 Armenian, a l^oumanian. a Serbian and an Italian child. Anyone 



