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This C\)inmitt(>(> has I'orinulatod a woll dc^fiiUHl phiii of action, cov- 

 (M'inp; a broad field hut phicing special enii)hasis on the conservation of 

 the natural resources of the country. 



The first meeting; was held at the Museiun on Friday, December 

 10th. Plans for future work were made, and it was decided to hold a 

 meeting on Thursday, January '27th, at the IVIuseum, at 2 o'clock. All 

 members of the federated clubs are invited to attend this meeting and to 

 take part in the discussions. 



The Decem])er number of the Bulletin o f the Art Institute of Chicago 

 was esi^ecially interesting. On the cover was reproduced in color a 

 beautifully illuminated page from a manuscript of the Renaissance 

 period. The original was the Periarchon of Origen, decorated by Fr. de 

 Chierici, one of the greatest of Florentine illuminators. 



A recent visitor to the Museum, as a guest of Dr. Lucas, was Colonel 

 A. N. KaznakofT, formerly Director of the Museum at Tiflis in the 

 Caucasus, and now of the American Central Committee for Russian 

 Relief. Colonel KaznakofT, during many years of travel and explora- 

 tion, formed a considerable collection of objects pertaining to Buddhist 

 iconography, Mongolian and Tibetan, as well as of various ethnological 

 specimens from different parts of Central Asia, Turkestan, Bokhara, 

 etc. 



On December 7th, two thousand children, representing every public 

 school in Manhattan, were the guests of the New York Tuberculosis 

 Association at a health symposium held in the Museum. The message 

 of the Christmas seal, the chief means of support of the Association's 

 work, was given the children in moving pictures, addresses and dramatic 

 recitals. 



A pintail duck, wearing one of the Museum's metal identification 

 bands to show that it had been released in New York, was recently shot 

 in Camrose, Alberta, a point 2,500 miles distant from New York. It 

 was shot in the newly settled area along the Canadian National railways, 

 which is a meeting ground for wild geese and many varieties of ducks. 

 These fowl had already begun their migration southward when the pin- 

 tail was killed. How far north this particular bird had been is not 



